Kyoto to Hamamatsu

A road leaves Kyoto and runs down the coast to Hamamatsu. The temple and the castle each land with their own sound, and a Hiroshige print of Hamamatsu surfaces beside the pin, then fills the frame.

Timed to the measured narration beat. Icons grow with the map, the approved look throughout. Drag the scrubber to step through a frame at a time.

In fifteen seventy one the head of the family Kanze Sosetsu moved his troupe to Hamamatsu to be near Tokugawa Ieyasu His brother had been at Ieyasu's side since Ieyasu was a hostage as a boy

KyotoHamamatsu
Kyoto

Picture: Hamamatsu, from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido. Utagawa Hiroshige · Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. CC0

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The four moves. The origin icon drops on the house slam-in. The road draws itself. The destination icon drops as the road arrives. 遠江 bleeds in underneath the modern wire, using the fill that was already built. Nothing rides the head of the line.

The road, the labels and the icons are counter-scaled every frame so they stay the same size on screen while the map zooms. Without that a 4.2px road becomes a 21px slab at the tightest zoom.