Goodbye Madame Butterfly

Designed July 2007, Released September 1st, 2007

Author: Sumie Kawakami

http://goodbyemadamebutterfly.com/

Publisher: Chin Music Press' fourth release.

* 224 pages
* hardcover
* sewn in bookmark
* 11 intimate, non fiction portraits of Japanese women (and one man: the sex volunteer)
* slightly larger than a standard paperback but smaller than your average hardcover — perfectly balanced in weight and easy to throw (gently, of course) into your bag
* beautiful Japanese papers used for the cover, endpages, tobira, half-titles and body text

Production Details:

Goodbye Madame Butterfly was printed in Tokyo, Japan at Yushin Printing.

The woman on the cover was found in an out-of-print, hand-printed book in the Jimbocho district of Tokyo. The topic of the book was the history of Japanese clothing and fashion as shown through illustration. Despite the book being nearly one-hundred years old, the images within were still vibrant. A testimony both to the quality of inks, papers and techniques used to produce the object.

The body text is set in Feijoa.