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Summary

A new explorable map in the style of Time of the Magicians: Japan from 1868 to 1878, as the domains become prefectures and the map is redrawn twice. Four lives walk it a year at a time: Fukuzawa, Itō, Saigō and Tsuda Umeko.

site/
├── index.html                  # + shelf card on Documentaries, beside Time of the Magicians
├── assets/covers/meiji.webp    # + cover (440×470, the 1868 domain map)
└── meiji/                      # + the page, static, no build step
    ├── lib/app.js              # playback adapted from time-of-the-magicians (MIT, see LICENSE-engine.txt)
    ├── lib/states.js           # 5 map states: domains 1868 → Tokugawa land → Aug 1871 → 3 fu 72 ken → 3 fu 35 ken (1876)
    ├── data/                   # 872 pieces, 2.1 MB TopoJSON; CC BY-SA 4.0 (data/LICENSE-map.txt)
    ├── notes/                  # county tables for 1871 and 1876, story sources and confidence
    ├── audio/en/               # 79 narration clips (Edge TTS)
    ├── audio/bgm/              # 2 koto tracks: 1868–71 and 1872–78, crossfaded at the year change
    └── img/                    # event prints (PD/CC0, img/SOURCES.md), portraits, 4 painted figures

The map is not drawn by hand. Each of 66,581 villages carries its 1868 lord, from Kyudaka_agrivillage v2.01 (Honda, Natsume and Nemoto; CC BY-SA 4.0), joined to the MAFF 2015 census community boundaries (CC BY; 99.18 % matched by area). The 1871 and 1876 prefectures then follow the decrees county by county (notes/ken-1871.csv, notes/ken-1876.csv); the inferred and rule-split counties are listed in the credits.

Evidence

• Page checks (playwright, desktop 1280×800, phone 390×844, landscape 844×390): all pass. That covers each year's film, rapid stepping, layout with no text overlap, events, keyboard, assets and the three redrawn map states. The 1871 state draws 1,632 boundary lines for 76 groups and 1876 draws 1,067 for 39. First load to playable takes 0.3 s; the camera runs at 58–59 fps and the follow-walk at 59 fps.
• Repo CI, run locally:
  • check_site.py: 15 books linted, 455 scripts and 196 inline scripts checked, 0 failed.
  • check_skill.py: 0 problems in 26 docs.
  • check_tts_text.py: ok.
• Music switch: stepping 1868 → 1873 → 1871 in a browser plays era1 through 1871, switches to era2 at 1872 and back to era1 at 1871, with no console errors. The music is ducked to 30 % under narration, through Web Audio as in Time of the Magicians.

Merge Danger

Door: two-way

Removing it means deleting site/meiji/, the cover and the four lines on the shelf; nothing else depends on them.

Blast Radius: contained

• The page touches no shared code. engine/ is unchanged and so are the other books; the only shared file edited is the shelf in site/index.html.
• Size: site/meiji/ is 23 MB (5.5 MB narration, 11.7 MB music, 2.1 MB map).
• Licences to agree to before merging:
  • The map data is CC BY-SA 4.0, not MIT, and is marked in data/LICENSE-map.txt.
  • The source's database terms (Rekihaku) allow non-profit use only, with credit and one copy of the published result sent to them.
  • The four walking figures were painted by an image model (OpenAI gpt-image-2.5-flare), and the credits say so.
  • The music is our own synthesised koto playing public-domain scores from Nagai and Obata's 1895 collection, typeset for the Mutopia Project.
• Not verified: nobody has listened to the narration's pronunciation of Japanese names, or to the synthesised music, and nothing has been tested on a real phone. Some dates in notes/sources.md are marked as from memory, still to be checked against a printed chronology.

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