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...whether he was a man who had dreamed of being a butterfly, or if he was a butterfly, now dreaming of being a man.

...ter returning from exile in [[1709]], he took on the name Itchô (lit. "one butterfly"). Though he studied formally in the [[Kano school|Kanô school]] style of

*A butterfly - a messenger from Heaven

*Giacomo Puccini composes ''[[Madame Butterfly]]''.

*Butterfly binding (''detchôsô'' 粘葉装 or ''kochôsô'' 胡蝶装) is somewhat s ...is quite rare among Japanese examples earlier than the Edo period. Whereas butterfly-bound books often alternate content pages with blank ones (the result of ea

*''Detchôsô'' 粘葉装 - a style of bookbinding known as "butterfly binding." An accordion book (see ''orihon'') which rather than being simply *''Kochôsô'' 胡蝶装 (lit. "butterfly binding") - see ''detchôsô''.

...chi]] has been fictionalized in numerous plays and films, including Madame Butterfly, and Berthold Brecht's "The Judith of Shimoda."