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This map was inspired by a post from Doug Greenfield about Hiroshige's woodblock prints. I wrote a short prompt and Claude did the rest with almost no input. Between 1856 and his death in 1858, Utagawa Hiroshige made over a hundred woodblock prints of Edo, the city that became Tokyo. The series was arranged by season. It shows bridges, temples, riverbanks, festivals and Mount Fuji on the horizon, often framed through a bold foreground of branches, boats or bodies. Van Gogh copied two of them. This map puts all 119 prints at the spot each view was drawn from, on...