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Ukiyo-e Weather & Road

Lantern Path

7 paper lanterns line a receding road in ukiyo-e woodblock style; sky and lanterns cycle through dusk and dawn as darkness falls and lifts.

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When to use it

Ambient hero backgrounds with a Japanese aesthetic, night-cycle themes, or decorative sections evoking traditional art.

When not to

Contexts needing legible text overlay — the slowly shifting dark sky reduces contrast. Not suitable for light-mode UIs.

Working with an AI agent

Every component ships agent-ready metadata. An example instruction for this one:

Change lantern count to 9 by setting N=9, increase the cycle speed by changing PERIOD from 16 to 10, and shift the lit glow to a cool blue-white (replace #ffd98a with #c8e0ff and #e8943a with #7ab2d4).

Safe to edit

  • lantern count (N=7)
  • cycle period (PERIOD=16 seconds)
  • sky palette (PAL object hex values)
  • lit glow gradient colors (#ffd98a, #e8943a)
  • lantern size range (34-22 px via w calculation)

Keep intact

  • prefers-reduced-motion guard (REDUCED check)
  • visibilitychange pause/resume
  • IIFE wrapper
  • role=img + aria-label on stage

Known limitations

  • Background color hardcoded dark navy — cannot easily adapt to light themes
  • No user interactivity; purely ambient
  • Lanterns built with CSS border-radius ovals — not pixel-exact to brush-stroke originals

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More Ukiyo-e Weather & Road components

  • Sudden RainUp to 140 slanted rain streaks fall in two depth layers over a painted ukiyo-e scene: gradient sky, green hill, indigo river, and arched bridge silhouette.
  • Bokashi SkyCanvas sky cycles dawn→day→dusk→night with bokashi gradients; sun/moon arcs overhead, stars appear at night, a bird drifts across, hills anchor the base.
  • Falling SnowSnow flakes drift and sway over a ukiyo-e night scene: indigo sky, snow-capped rooftops, and a lone layered pine. Static fallback for reduced-motion.
  • Distant MountainFour ukiyo-e hill silhouettes drift at different parallax rates past a snow-capped peak and glowing sun on a gradient indigo sky.
  • Plum BranchA ukiyo-e-style ume plum branch with 11 blossoms that bloom open petal-by-petal, sway gently, and re-bloom every 12 seconds against layered ink hills.
  • Boat on the SwellA small ferry rocks on sine-wave swells at dusk beneath a sienna sun and three circling gulls, rendered in ukiyo-e woodblock palette.