For 'Kotoba', shot from above of a three-person family on a futon, Koichiro Kimura received an honourable mention at the 2014 Canon New Cosmos of Photography. Here he photographs his own small son using the toilet: as a father attending the boy who cannot yet wipe himself and helping with his excretion, Kimura catches the endlessly varied expressions the child shows each time. The face that appears is indescribably endearing, brimming with innocence and earnestness. 'A child lives each day with all its might, and defecation is one part of that; for the child it is not something dirty but something close, like a dear companion,' he says — a book everyone, young and old, can enjoy.