..Madem0iselle Butterfly....

Butterfly

When Butterfly was ten, her family sold her to the geisha house, Hanano Okiya, to gain money to feed the family. Her hometown is in the North-East region of Japan and her family includes a mother, father, grandmother, older brother, younger sister and a younger brother who passed away before she was sold. Upon moving to Hanano Okiya, she was looked after by the older girls working there who watched over her like a younger sister. Ever since she was a child living in Hanano Okiya, she always played with Chinatsu Fukuzawa, a tattooist who lived behind the geisha house. She also had a long time crush on Chinatsu as well.

She worked as a geisha-in-training until, one day, she was purchased by a rich foreigner that was one of Chinatsu's customers for 3500 yen ($300) when she was 15-years-old. Later on, when she revealed her true feelings to Chinatsu, and he realized his own feelings for her too, he bought her from the foreigner.
After this happened, she moved in with him and stopped working as a geisha-in-training.

Chinatsu Fukazawa

Chinatsu became a childhood friend of Butterfly when she moved into Hanano Okiya, a geisha house behind to where he lives. Butterfly had always had a crush on him ever since she met him for the first time as a child. Although he always thought of her as a little sister, eventually he realizes his true feelings for her.

He makes a living as an "underground" tattoo artist because tattooing is illegal during the Showa era. He is usually seen doing He is the son of a famous painter in the story named Fukuzawa Seishuu and has an older half-brother named Akie. Chinatsu began living alone and became a tattooist when he ran away from home as a teenager.


As the story develops, Chinatsu marries Butterfly and in the middle of her pregnancy he is drafted off to war. While a soldier at war, he becomes a father of twin baby girls.