Madame Butterfly Statue

Nagasaki


Inside Glover Garden, this statue memorialises Japanese opera singer Tamaki Miura, who performed as Cio-Cio-san in Puccini's famous opera Madame Butterfly (the story took place here in Nagasaki).


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