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Art style: Ghibli-inspired 2D animation, 90s rural India, monsoon season, lush green landscapes, warm interior lighting, nostalgic atmosphere, soft watercolor textures.. Close-up, eye level. A carved wooden bamboo ladle pours a smooth, clear stream of water into the dark opening of a heavy cast iron pot. The pot is suspended over a warm, glowing fire. Tiny puffs of white steam rise immediately where the cool water hits the hot metal. The lighting is dramatic, highlighting the stream of water and the steam against the dark background. The mood is active, sensory, and deeply satisfying. Dominant palette of dark iron black, clear water highlights, and warm firelight orange. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image entirely in "Ghibli-inspired 2D animation, 90s rural India, monsoon season, lush green landscapes, warm interior lighting, nostalgic atmosphere, soft watercolor textures." style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Ghibli-inspired 2D animation, 90s rural India, monsoon season, lush green landscapes, warm interior lighting, nostalgic atmosphere, soft watercolor textures.". Keep the subject, composition, camera angle, lighting direction, and colour palette from the description above — but EVERY surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in the "Ghibli-inspired 2D animation, 90s rural India, monsoon season, lush green landscapes, warm interior lighting, nostalgic atmosphere, soft watercolor textures." idiom, not in any other medium. Character appearance reference (MUST match exactly): - Tatsu: An elderly Japanese woman in her early 70s with deep, graceful wrinkles and a calm, peaceful expression. She has grey hair styled in a traditional shimada bun with a wooden kanzashi hairpin. She wears a faded dark indigo hanten vest over a white cotton kimono. Her hands are weathered but steady, showing decades of practiced skill. She sits in a traditional wooden machiya house near a warm, glowing irori hearth. The lighting is a mix of warm amber firelight and cool grey, rainy dawn light coming through paper shoji screens. She exudes an aura of complete domestic peace, quiet resilience, and profound maternal warmth.