Random Dispatches » japanese culture http://lindsayrgwatt.com/blog A snapshot of what was going through my mind when I clicked "publish" Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:54:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Kawaii http://lindsayrgwatt.com/blog/2009/06/kawaii/ http://lindsayrgwatt.com/blog/2009/06/kawaii/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:47:34 +0000 lindsayrgwatt http://lindsayrgwatt.com/blog/?p=774 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:

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