Asakusa Kaminarimon Washi Postcard

Goal: Create a vintage Japanese travel postcard / collector sheet in handmade washi watercolor collage style featuring {argument name="location headline" default="ASAKUSA, TOKYO, JAPAN"} and {argument name="landmark name" default="KAMINARIMON GATE"} on a calm spring morning.

Canvas: Vertical 3:4 postcard layout on warm ivory handmade washi paper with deckled texture, subtle fibers, lightly aged edges, and a thin pale border. Overall look should feel like a premium printed art postcard, not a photo.

Layout: Top typography band, large central illustration, and bottom collector-edition footer. The central illustration occupies most of the page and has irregular torn-paper/watercolor edges blending into the background.

Top text content: At the very top, small spaced serif text reads “WASHI ART COLLECTION” with a tiny floral ornament and thin horizontal gold rules. Below it, a large elegant serif all-caps headline reads “{argument name="location headline" default="ASAKUSA, TOKYO, JAPAN"}”. Under that, smaller red all-caps text reads “{argument name="landmark name" default="KAMINARIMON GATE"}”. Beneath, in small cursive script, write “a calm spring morning”, flanked by delicate gold divider flourishes.

Central illustration: Show Tokyo’s Kaminarimon Gate at Senso-ji in Asakusa, front-facing and slightly perspective-corrected, with a massive red paper lantern hanging in the center displaying bold black kanji-like calligraphy. The gate is vermilion red with dark green lattice panels, a weathered gray-brown tiled roof, wooden beams, white decorative blocks, and a green signboard above the lantern with gold characters. Include the sense of a wet stone street after light rain, with soft reflections and visitors walking toward and through the gate.

Counted visible elements in the central scene: include exactly 1 large central red lantern, exactly 1 green-and-gold signboard above it, exactly 2 guardian statue alcoves inside the gate, exactly 1 tall stone marker on the left with vertical Japanese characters, exactly 1 black streetlamp near the cherry blossoms, exactly 1 smaller decorative lantern structure at lower left, exactly 1 row of shopfronts on the right with red hanging lanterns, and exactly 2 clearly prominent kimono-wearing women in the foreground, one cream floral kimono on the left and one pink floral kimono on the right. Add additional small pedestrians in muted coats as background figures, but keep them secondary.

Season and atmosphere: {argument name="seasonal detail" default="soft pink cherry blossoms"} bloom heavily on the left side, partially framing the gate and streetlamp. The morning is quiet, misty, and gentle, with muted spring colors, damp pavement, and soft diffuse light.

Bottom footer: At lower left, include a short vertical Japanese poem in black ink with a small red square seal stamp beneath it. Center footer text: large cursive “Picture Postcard”, below it red serif “Handmade Washi Art”, then a thin outlined label box containing “ART EDITION”, then “LIMITED EDITION / 2000”, and finally small red text “NOT VALID FOR POSTAGE”. At lower right, include exactly 1 circular gold collector stamp reading “COLLECTOR SHEET”, with a small blossom icon at the top and wave pattern at the bottom.

Visual style: Handmade washi art, watercolor gouache, torn-paper collage texture, visible paper fibers, soft granulation, imperfect ink edges, muted vermilion, dusty pink, moss green, warm gray, antique gold, and sepia-black typography. Use realistic architectural proportions but painterly, textured rendering.

Constraints: Preserve all major English text exactly as specified. Keep the image clean and centered like a printable collector postcard. Avoid modern signage, cars, neon, photorealism, glossy digital effects, or extra logos.