Kawaii, the Japanese aesthetic of all things cute, has transformed even the most ... You will also love these fun kawaii food ...

toeing the line of aesthetic taste. And yet kawaii has persisted, morphed and evolved. Nowadays, cute things are everywhere, perhaps an artifact of the times we live in and the alleged ...

By the mid-Edo period (1603-1867), food was being combined with cute performances ... Today, kawaii has been well integrated with the traditional aesthetic codes that guide the presentation ...

Eating fish is rarely so cute ... but still-beloved Kawaii Monster Café. Like the Café, Sushidelic’s menu includes offerings that appear more art objects than food items, but here Masuda ...

“Women thus embrace the harmlessness and innocence of shōjo by enthusiastically consuming cute merchandise, while delaying their roles as wives and mothers.” Kawaii culture is classified by ...

If you’re familiar with Japanese culture, you know that kawaii is the cultural celebration of all things cute and adorable. The bright, sweet, and innocent kawaii aesthetic has taken over in ...

Providing an in-depth overview of all things kawaii (cute), this book traces the cute aesthetic from its inception in the 1970s as a schoolgirl trend to its position as a leading cultural norm ...

Integral to the global phenomena of cute, the exhibition asserts, is “kawaii,” a Japanese word which literally translates as “cuteness.” According to the exhibition, modern kawaii culture ...

This year has been anything but cute. It’s been occasionally ... plays a major role in the popularity of kawaii, because so much of the kawaii aesthetic is indeed visual.