These fun and friendly drawings have fun depictions of everything from food to animals to everyday items ... That's likely the magic of kawaii drawings at work! This Japanese art style, translating to ...
Ultra-cute as a lifestyle exploded throughout Japan in the 1950s and ‘60s with artist Rune Naito, whose illustrations (and later, netsuke-style ceramics) of adorable girls and big-eyed animals ...
In Japan, ‘cute’ is a big deal. Their own word for it, kawaii (“ka-why-ee”), is more of an ethos than an adjective. Shops and billboards are filled with big-eyed fluffy figures.