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A Butterfly for Reiko Chiba TuttleIn 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’sTokaidoinPrintsandPoetry, 1950• JapaneseScreensinMiniature, 1960• Sesshu’sLongScroll:AZenLandscapeJourney, 1960• PaintedFansofJapan:15NohDramaMasterpieces, 1962

• ACopybookforJapaneseInk-Painting, 1964• DowntheEmperor’sRoadwithHiroshige, 1965• TheJapaneseFortuneCalendar, 1965• TheSevenLuckyGodsofJapan, 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) Valley-fold diagonally in half both ways, unfolding after each. (B) Valley-fold the top edge to the bottom.

4. (A) Valley-fold the bottom corners to the valley crease above. (B) Valley-fold the flap upward to lock the corners inside.

7. Open the top layer upward. Rotate the paper 90 degrees counterclockwise.

2. (A) Move the bottom edge of the top layer to the top folded edge and make a short pinch mark. Unfold. (B) Move the bottom edge of the top layer to the pinch mark and make another short pinch mark. Unfold.

5. Turn the paper over left to right.

8. Valley-fold the bottom edge to top.

3. Lay the lower pinch mark upon the upper pinch mark and valley-fold the paper across the full length. Unfold.

6. Valley-fold the bottom edge up at the level of the back-side bottom layer. Unfold.

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10. Your paper should look like this. Turn it over left to right.

11. Squash-fold the right half. Look ahead at step 12 to see the result.

12. Use the horizontal crease of the top layer to valley-fold the top edge down. Squash-fold the left and right corners. Look ahead at step 13 for the shape.

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13. Swivel the left and right top layers out-ward, valley-folding the bottom edge to form a pointed flap at the middle.

16. Form a crimped overlap at the middle of each wing by moving the top layer of the hindwing up. Valley-fold the lower layers to the corners, creating new trailing edges on the hindwings. Sharpen the middle mountain creases.

19. (A) Mountain-fold the tops of the fore-wings behind. (B) Mountain-fold the long, outer edges of the top layers of the hindwings. (C) Valley-fold the bottom inside edges of the bottommost flaps to the indicated creases.

14. Valley-fold in half, bottom corner to the top of the split. Unfold.

17. (A) Valley-fold the bottommost edges of the hindwings to the outermost edges. Unfold. (B) Inside-reverse-fold the indicated corners at the middle of the wings. Detail to follow.

20. (A) Valley-fold a crescent-shaped, color-change “lunule” on each vertical edge of the top layers of the forewings. (B) Valley-fold the bottom flaps of the hindwings inside.

15. Squash-fold the upper halves of the left and right wing sets. Look ahead at step 16 for the results.

18. Inside-reverse-folding detail.

21. Mountain- and valley-fold the body, pivot-ing the bottom corner over the right wing to touch the indicated folded edge.




22. Valley-fold the left wing to match the right wing. Unfold.

23. (A) Fold the paper for the head. See detail in step 24. (B) Fold in half, wing to wing, trap-ping the body paper in between.

24. Squash-fold the head. Mountain-fold the pointed flap behind to complete the head.


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25. (A) Mountain-fold the lower edges of the abdomen in. (B) Valley-fold the wings out.

A Butterfly for Reiko Chiba Tuttle.

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