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Cat Playing with a Toy Butterfly, from the series Thirty-six Pictures of Birds (1828) by Hokkei Totoya.<\/em><\/p>\n The Daughter of Dainagon Yukinari (c.1842) by Kuniyoshi Utagawa.<\/em><\/p>\n Butterfly Dancer and Monster Cat – Kabuki (1870s) by Yoshitaki Utagawa.<\/em><\/p>\n The Orchid (1896) by Gekko Ogata.<\/em><\/p>\n Cotton Spinning (no date) by Harunobu Suzuki.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cats & Butterfly (1967) by Kiyoshi Asai.<\/em><\/p>\n Cats and Butterfly (1967) by Tomikichiro Tokuriki.<\/em><\/p>\n Cat and Tulip (1972) by Tomoo Inagaki.<\/em><\/p>\n Cat and Butterfly (1985) by Miyashita.<\/em><\/p>\n Cat plays with butterfly by his tail (1994) by Iwao Akiyama.<\/em><\/p>\n Miss B (2001) by Tadashige Ono.<\/em><\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } Cat Playing with a Toy Butterfly, from the series Thirty-six Pictures of Birds (1828) by Hokkei Totoya. The Daughter of Dainagon Yukinari (c.1842) by Kuniyoshi Utagawa. Butterfly Dancer and Monster Cat – Kabuki (1870s) by Yoshitaki Utagawa. The Orchid (1896) by Gekko Ogata. Cotton Spinning (no date) by Harunobu Suzuki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Cats and butterflies","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[14198,14199,14195,14202,14200,14196,14201,14203,11372,13374,14197],"class_list":["post-28431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-gekko-ogata","tag-harunobu-suzuki","tag-hokkei-totoya","tag-iwao-akiyama","tag-kiyoshi-asai","tag-kuniyoshi-utagawa","tag-miyashita","tag-tadashige-ono","tag-tomikichiro-tokuriki","tag-tomoo-inagaki","tag-yoshitaki-utagawa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7oz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"cat-butterfly-02.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cat-butterfly-02.jpg\")
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