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40 Extremely Funny And Cute Pictures Of Japan’s Stray Cats By Masayuki Oki (New Pics)
Interview With ArtistJapan loves cats, and cats probably love living in Japan. It's a mutual love, in other words. Even the strays seem to live the good life over there. They're well fed by people, they can get fresh fish, and they have lots of company.
Masayuki Oki wanders the streets to capture stray cats. Not to put them in a shelter or whatever, but to capture awesome photos of them for his Instagram. And he's really good at it. So much so, that he has 248k followers.
It isn't the first time that his funny, adorable, and even wholesome pictures have been featured here on Bored Panda. Check out the first two parts of his amazing stray cat photos here and here if you missed them!
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Here's what the artist told to Bored Panda about his background and photography: "I have loved cats since I was a child. My family environment did not allow me to have a cat, so I had a one-sided love for cats until I was almost 30 years old. Also, I didn't really pick up a camera until I was 30 years old, but I had to use it for my work. At first, I was very bad at it. However, I gradually learned about how fun cameras were and it became a hobby."
"At the age of 36, I was resting in a park during a break from work when I met a cat named "Busanyan Senpai" and fell in love with it at first sight. It was a gray cat with a spiral pattern like an American shorthair. In Japan, such cats are usually kept at home, but this cat was outside. It was also very plump. I wondered how it was living there. I wondered how they lived, and the next day I started to take photos of cats as a serious subject."
"Here's a pic of Busanyan Senpai. When I posted this photo on Instagram, people from overseas praised me so much (*Overseas people praise me more than Japanese people, they say things like "Awesome!") I started uploading one or two photos of cats to Instagram every day.
I started taking pictures of cats as a hobby, but later on, it became my job."
"There are many anthropomorphic works in Japanese culture, such as "bird and animal caricatures" and ukiyo-e prints from the Edo period, in which animals stand on two legs like people and behave like people. Wouldn't it be fun to use cat photos to express this anthropomorphism?"
"I think it would make people love cats even more. I think you will feel more love for cats.
I'm waiting to capture those moments when cats just happen to appear in their natural habitat.
I want people to heal through my photos, and I want you to smile through the anthropomorphizations of cats."
this looks like my sister and me , she is always trying to make the things like me .
"Yes, I'm quite comfortable, thanks. Do you happen to have a shoehorn or small crowbar on you? "