Kotori Kawashima is a Japanese photographer best known for Mirai-chan, a portrait of a little girl on Sado Island made over the course of a year. First published in 2011, the book has sold more than 130,000 copies.
Born in Tokyo in 1980, she studied French literature at Waseda University and then learned photography under the photographer Motoki Numata.
Her next book, Meisei (2014), photographed in Taiwan, received the 40th Kimura Ihei Award in 2015, one of the most important prizes for young photographers in Japan.
In 2024 Nanarokusha published a new edition of Mirai-chan with six photographs that had not appeared in the original book.
