Edo-period hashira-e woodblock print depicting a giant pelic…

Monday 3 August 2026

Edo-period hashira-e woodblock print depicting a giant pelic…
Inspiration
Karpathy's pelican grows legs but cannot see where it walks — long-horizon AI generation reveals a model auditing its own work through a straw.
Prompt by
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
Image model
MAI-Image-2.5
Style
Edo-period hashira-e woodblock print

Edo-period hashira-e woodblock print depicting a giant pelican with blind white eyes, its long beak tilted skyward, striding on elongated legs that fill the tall narrow frame. Below its webbed feet lie cracked dry earth and unrolled scrolls, while a plain off-white cartouche near the top edge carries the words 'BLIND PELICAN' in bold clean block letters. Flat indigo sky, ink-black negative space, vermilion highlights on the bird's pouch and wing-tips, delicate linework, visible mulberry paper grain, no other text or seals. 9:16 portrait phone wallpaper.