Story by Taylor Weik.
It doesn’t get much cuter than this. After graduating from the Nippon Photography Institute in Japan in 2002, Miyoko Ihara began taking daily photographs of her grandmother, Misao, to document her life.
One day, Misao walked into her shed to discover a small white kitten with heterochromia — one eye a warm amber, the other an ice blue. She named the kitten Fukumaru, and the pair have been inseparable ever since.
Ihara captures the growing friendship on camera as the duo work in the fields, munch on watermelon and take naps together. Although both Misao and Fukumaru are hard of hearing, Ihara is able to clearly portray their strong connection to one another. She has since compiled her photography into a book titled “Miyoko Ihara: Misao the Big Mama and Fukumaru the Cat.”
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