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English Prompt

10-second historical documentary animation in Vox explainer style. Background is a yellowed washi paper map of old Japan with a ruled grid, old highway routes, post-station seals, paper creases and pale brown water stains.
A traveling Edo-period musician in a kimono and a conical straw hat, with a bamboo flute tucked at his waist, sets out from a cutout illustration of a village festival in the western provinces and moves briskly along a vermilion highway route line. Every time the character passes a place, he scatters a few musical notes into the air, and the notes spin and transform into taiko drums, hand bells, paper lanterns and folding fan icons.
The route passes mountain passes, post stations, river ferries and the temple town before a shrine gate. Vintage cutout stickers of couriers, teahouses, boatmen and pilgrims pop up in sequence on both sides of the frame. The character finally arrives at the kagura-den pavilion of a shrine, plays his flute, and performs together with the local festival ensemble.
At the end, ripples of sound rise and form a single map curve running the length of the Japanese archipelago. Smooth motion graphics, paper-craft collage style, vermilion red, ochre yellow, ink black and cream white tones; warm, restrained, with a sense of history being handed down.