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Miffy is being treated as the official ambassador for the presentation of Girl with a Pearl Earring, which hasn’t traveled beyond the Netherlands in more than a decade. It’s one of Vermeer’s most famous works, and it rarely goes abroad. It memorably appeared in a 2023 Vermeer retrospective at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam that attracted hordes of visitors.

According to some Dutch officials, this could be the last time Girl with a Pearl Earring will travel, not just to Japan but to anywhere at all. “Maybe this is her last tour, since she is ‘advancing in age’ like all of us,” said Gilles Beschoor Plug, the Dutch ambassador to Japan, in a statement posted to X.

Miffy’s appearance at Thursday’s press conference in Tokyo was a clever bit of PR, given that Miffy is, in fact, of Dutch origin, despite the persistent misperception that she was invented in Japan, where she is particularly popular. (Her inventor is the late Dick Bruna, who denounced the similar-looking Hello Kitty character by Sanrio during his lifetime.) Yet the decision to have Miffy present and featured so prominently marked an attempt to suggest harmony between the two nations.

Happy Month of the Magical Girl and Pride Month to these three. What the hell do you MEAN they have literal promise rings for raising a child together what the FUCK

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