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A Butterfly for Reiko Chiba Tuttle

In 1947, Reiko Chiba met Charles Egbert Tuttle Jr. while he was in Japan, working for General MacArthur’s
post-war reconstruction. Charles Tuttle’s first assignment was to help rebuild the newspaper business, and he soon
saw a great opportunity to start his own publishing company to produce “books to span the East and West.” Reiko
was from a large and wealthy Hokkaido family, and she frequently joked that she married Charles Tuttle because
he had a Jeep (which was an impressive status symbol for a young, American Army officer).
Reiko and Charles were married in 1951, and together they built a thriving business to supply the occupation
troops with English translations of everything useful—from linguistics, to martial arts and Asian culture.
Reiko Chiba Tuttle authored and edited several books about Japanese culture, including:

• Hiroshige’s Tokaido in Prints and Poetry, 1950 • A Copybook for Japanese Ink-Painting, 1964
• Japanese Screens in Miniature, 1960 • Down the Emperor’s Road with Hiroshige, 1965
• Sesshu’s Long Scroll: A Zen Landscape Journey, 1960 • The Japanese Fortune Calendar, 1965
• Painted Fans of Japan: 15 Noh Drama Masterpieces, 1962 • The Seven Lucky Gods of Japan, 1966

Reiko and Charles enjoyed a lifetime of bridging societies through sharing knowledge of language, art, and cul-
ture. We hope this butterfly, designed and named for Reiko Chiba Tuttle, spreads the joy of paper folding through-
out the world as a fitting commemoration of her achievements.
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1. Begin with the major color facing up. (A) 2. (A) Move the bottom edge of the top layer 3. Lay the lower pinch mark upon the upper
Valley-fold diagonally in half both ways, to the top folded edge and make a short pinch mark and valley-fold the paper across
unfolding after each. (B) Valley-fold the top pinch mark. Unfold. (B) Move the bottom the full length. Unfold.
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10. Your paper should look like this. Turn it 11. Squash-fold the right half. Look ahead at 12. Use the horizontal crease of the top layer
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ward, valley-folding the bottom edge to form top of the split. Unfold. and right wing sets. Look ahead at step 16
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23. (A) Fold the paper for the head. See detail 24. Squash-fold the head. Mountain-fold the
22. Valley-fold the left wing to match the right in step 24. (B) Fold in half, wing to wing, trap- pointed flap behind to complete the head.
wing. Unfold. ping the body paper in between.
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