The Japanese have a great word, kawaii, to refer to their prediliction for “precious”, “adorable” and “cute” characters in their culture (click the link to read how mechanical pencils started an underground revolution – that’s an unanticipated consequence if every there was one). A few years back Wendy went to Japan and brought me back a ridiculously kawaii notepad. It’s cute to the point of being useless and absolutely fascinating at the same time.
Today I found the pad as I was cleaning some stuff up, so I’ve scanned each of the types of pages here for you. Click the thumbnails for the cuteness:
