Valentine's Day 2012

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Valentine's Day - 2012

***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Spring, Dry Season in Tropics
***** Category: Observance

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. WKD : Valentine's Day - Main Entry .

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- Daruma Masamune - for Valentine's Day 達磨正宗
with shnaps-filled chocolates


Valentine's Day -
let's have a drink
before we start !





Valentine's Day -
I send you a sweet
postcard
Click to see it!


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Sendai's first Valentine's Day
since disasters about more than just love

Chocolates with positive messages have emerged as big sellers in Sendai for the first Valentine's Day since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
At the Fujisaki department store downtown, chocolate gifts made with locally produced sake or honey and carrying messages of gratitude are gaining in popularity.

"It is probably because consumers want to support products using food from disaster-hit areas," said a member of the store's sales promotion team.



Fujisaki offers different kinds of chocolate-related items using ingredients from Miyagi Prefecture to support tsunami-hit areas.
One product is made with six different types of sake brewed in the prefecture, while coffee beans roasted in the city of Ishinomaki and covered with chocolate are another popular treat. Chocolates in the shape of a honeycomb and made with honey produced in Sendai are also selling well.
This is the first time such products have been sold for Valentine's Day, the store said.

As people grew to value "kizuna" — a Japanese word for "bond" — between family and friends after the disaster, the store prepared candy sets with a message saying "Thank you" in five different languages, including Japanese and English, so that people can express their gratitude.

In a similar spirit, the Mitsukoshi department store in Sendai is donating part of its proceeds from chocolate products to disaster areas. One bears the label "Charity Box" and sells for ¥2,400, of which ¥1,000 will be donated through the Japanese Red Cross Society.

Kiyomi Hishinuma, 42, who bought chocolate at the store for her husband, spoke of the spirit behind many gifts this Valentine's Day, 11 months after the disasters.
"The person I counted on the most when the quake hit was my husband," she said.
"I bought more expensive chocolate than usual to show him my gratitude."
source : Japan Times


. Japan after the BIG earthquake March 11, 2011　.

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a whole WINDOWS
full of pink -
Valentine's Day






even the rain
shows shades of pink -
Valentine's Day



Valentine's Day -
should I get off
the beaten track ?
?
?
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Gabi Greve
2012

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quote
“It took us a long time to realize
that a purpose of human life,
no matter who is controlling it,
is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
Kurt Vonnegut.



Heart-shaped “Ema” — wooden plaques upon which you write your wishes/prayers.
Here at Kasuga Taisha Shrine (Nara, 2008) the ema are almost exclusively for wishes of love, for the Special Someone, to find that Special Someone, and the like.

MORE
source : letsjapan.wordpress.com


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Mikuji Jinja おみくじ神社 sweet mikuji chololates for Valentines


. Amulets and Talismans from Japan .　


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Worldwide use



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Things found on the way


Barentain Daruma バレンタイン だるま




source :　yoshida-daruma.com


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source :　axcis nalf

The red Daruma sweets tast of milk,
the white one's of pickled plums (umeboshi).


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HAIKU


Valentine 2012

Shared by friends on facebook
Joys of Japan, February 2012



Olga Hooper . Origa Kankodori Press




Valentine chocolates
I eat one
my wife rest of them

Hideo Suzuki



Valentine's Day--
a sparrow
is my sweetheart

Karma Tenzing Wangchuk


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Yosano Akiko, Midaregami 乱れ髪 Tangled Hair


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blue sky---
stores decorate
for St Valentine Day


Valentine Day---
I eat her
nacho

Fred Masarani


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Valentine's Day--
suffering from
mid-life crisis

Manu Kant



valentine's day....
all geometrical figures
tend to be heart shaped

Kash Poet



a waterfall of hair
conceals a torrent
of kisses

Donall Dempsey



Sur mes lèvres
ce mot d’amour
qu’elle attend.

Patrick Fetu



a bunch of
blue irises on my pillow -
Valentine's Day

Angelika Kolompar


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Valentine day
Venus with Jupiter
closely


Valentine's Day -
in the flower market
red roses

Valentine's Day -
flavor of chocolate
for men

Gennady Nov

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bright red hearts
bouquets of flowers ~
Galahad is dead


he gives her
leopard lingerie. . .
for himself

Elaine Andre


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my funny valentine...
chocolate covered cherries
in a can

Jimmy ThePeach ‎
my funny valentine .. in the WIKIPEDIA !


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Gustav Klimt, the Kiss

Art gallery –
sweet memories
of Valentine’s day

Virginia PopescuJoys of Japan - Poetry


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Midnight
Valentine's Day
To Myself

Satdeep Gill


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Valentine's Day
she tells him how much
he loves her

BILL KENNEY


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. Valentine 2012 in Kenya .


Valentine's Day --
who may be thinking of me
right now?

Isabelle Prondzynski



rush hour--
flower sold everywhere
in the street

Joseph Machariah

PEACOCKS VALENTINES DAY COLLECTION - 01 -




valentine's day--
a girl's red tongue licks
a red ice cream

Dennis Wright

PEACOCKS VALENTINES DAY COLLECTION - 02 -




presenting a flower-
he slips over a bucket
of water

Edith Omuhanza

PEACOCKS VALENTINES DAY COLLECTION - 03 -



- Valentine in Nairobi, Kenya 2012
a note from Patrick Wafula


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Valentine's Day:
with a head cold my wife blows
a kiss and her nose!

Larry Bole


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Valentine's Day Daruma,
courtesy of Doug Gatanis


Valentine morning -
a sweet Daruma
peeks on my screen


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Related words


remembering
the sweet taste of haiku -
Valentine's Day over

. WKD : Valentine's Day - Main Entry .


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