相合傘 Love Umbrella

Hee, made this for hubby while browsing the web. It sure feels good to be on a good break after pre-reg. Its like liberation from a 9-month stay at AH stress-house. Anyhow, from this one can easily tell who is the more romantic one of us two right? Heh...Okie, more on this symbol below:

One of these I like is called Ai-ai-gasa, which literally means "walking together under an umbrella" but it sounds phonetically like it means "Love Love Umbrella." Supposedly, the idea of a boy and girl walking in the rain under the same umbrella is quite romantic to the Japanese, and this concept is expressed by a cute little doodle that's drawn by elementary school students, the Japanese equivalent of a boy and a girl carving their initials in a tree surrounded by a heart or the old "...sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G" song.