How Japan's "most famous" artist, and others, are subverting the country's cute "kawaii" aesthetic to question the world we live in. More than a millennium ago, the Japanese empress Fujiwara no Teishi gifted one of her court ladies, Sei Shōnagon, a bundle of fine paper. Sei, who was from a literary family, used the pages to jot down observations from her daily life in a collection now known as The