Being an adult is tough and there’s no unsubscribe link. Luckily, you can go back in time with these adorable photos by Japanese photographer Kotori Kawashima. He followed his friend’s 4-year-old daughter from a rural Japanese village to Paris, while she was discovering the world.
Kawashima released a whole book called “Mirai Chan” featuring the rosy-cheeked girl in 2011. The book was an instant success in Japan and earned the photographer the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award Photos Award in the same year.
So take a break from your unanswered emails and let this bubbly girl walk you down memory lane. She might teach you a thing or two.
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She isn't smiling in most photos because they're mostly candid shots and not posed. I don't think she looks truly sad in any of them; in her serious shots she looks reflective.
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So many of these shots of Mirai Chan (Little Miss Future) are adorable and tug at my heart strings. But the one I especially love is her playing in the sand on the beach. When I was a child (a bit older than her), my family lived one street away from the beach and that was the happiest time in my life. I spent nearly every day in nice weather at the beach playing with sand, water, seaweed and tiny crabs and fish. Just looking at that photo evokes the happInes I felt then.
Adorable little girl! Love the photos, especially the one with her eating her ice cream cone. Seems that she dislikes the flavor! LOL Placed the photo on my desktop.
She is adorable! I placed the photo of her eating the ice cream cone on my desktop. Maybe she is thinking "I don't care for this one." LOL \\
She looks like a Jon Walsh anglund doll....oriental version!!!!!adorable!
She is like a painting come to life! So adorable! What to see her when she grows up! :)
I didn't know they had Stagecoach buses in Japan, they will let any rubbish into their country.
Obviously, you've never been out of where you are.Japan is one of the cleanest country in the world & maybe they won't let you in.
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I find some of these more creepy than adorable. nightmare fuel, I tell you...
Kinda how I feel about your avatar- who is that?
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She isn't smiling in most photos because they're mostly candid shots and not posed. I don't think she looks truly sad in any of them; in her serious shots she looks reflective.
Load More Replies... So many of these shots of Mirai Chan (Little Miss Future) are adorable and tug at my heart strings. But the one I especially love is her playing in the sand on the beach. When I was a child (a bit older than her), my family lived one street away from the beach and that was the happiest time in my life. I spent nearly every day in nice weather at the beach playing with sand, water, seaweed and tiny crabs and fish. Just looking at that photo evokes the happInes I felt then.
Adorable little girl! Love the photos, especially the one with her eating her ice cream cone. Seems that she dislikes the flavor! LOL Placed the photo on my desktop.
She is adorable! I placed the photo of her eating the ice cream cone on my desktop. Maybe she is thinking "I don't care for this one." LOL \\
She looks like a Jon Walsh anglund doll....oriental version!!!!!adorable!
She is like a painting come to life! So adorable! What to see her when she grows up! :)
I didn't know they had Stagecoach buses in Japan, they will let any rubbish into their country.
Obviously, you've never been out of where you are.Japan is one of the cleanest country in the world & maybe they won't let you in.
Load More Replies... I find some of these more creepy than adorable. nightmare fuel, I tell you...
Kinda how I feel about your avatar- who is that?
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