Plum Blossom Blizzard Duel

Twelve-second ink-wash anime short, 16:9, sumi-e animated film. A winter paper garden under a pale sky: one ancient plum tree, its branches heavy with blossom, petals falling thick as red snow in a blizzard that fills the whole frame.
0-3s: The garden establishes in ink and wash: the plum tree, the drifting red petals, then two swordsmen revealed standing among the fall, one old and spare in grey robes, one young and fierce in black. 3-8s: The duel begins and the blades are barely visible, only thin silver lines; the fight's true path is drawn by the disturbed petals, swirls and spirals torn through the blizzard marking every cut and parry, the two figures flowing between stillness and violence. 8-12s: The old master ends it with a single petal-cut, his sword stopping a hair from the young swordsman's throat; the youth bows deeply and catches one falling petal in his open palm, holding it like a lesson received.
Subject and wardrobe: the old master in spare grey kimono with a plain katana, the young duelist in black with a red cord at his waist, both painted in minimal ink strokes. Props: the plum tree, two katana, the single caught petal. Camera: a wide garden establishing shot, then swirl-tracking moves that follow the petal disturbances rather than the fighters, closing on the petal-catch macro. Lighting: paper white ground, ink black figures, plum red petal accents, soft diffuse winter light. Atmosphere: elegant, fleeting, respectful. Style: sumi-e anime, strict red-black-white palette, petal choreography, 24fps.