Japanese Folktale Crane Manga Page

{
  "type": "Japanese folktale manga page",
  "style": "clean modern manga illustration with soft cel shading, crisp black panel borders, readable vertical Japanese text, gentle winter palette, storybook tone",
  "format": "single page with 3 horizontal panels stacked vertically",
  "setting": {
    "time": "daytime",
    "weather": "light snowfall",
    "location": "open snowy field with a few distant evergreen trees",
    "atmosphere": "quiet, mysterious, compassionate"
  },
  "text": {
    "language": "Japanese",
    "title_main": "鶴の返し",
    "title_side_left": "日本の昔話",
    "title_side_right": "やさしさが運んだ、ふしぎな物語",
    "intro_box": "雪の日に始まった、ふしぎな出会い――"
  },
  "characters": [
    {
      "role": "young man",
      "appearance": "short black hair, simple brown kimono tied with a muted blue sash, kneeling or leaning forward in concern",
      "face": "intentionally blurred or obscured"
    },
    {
      "role": "red-crowned crane",
      "appearance": "white body, black neck and tail accents, red crown patch, long beak, expressive wings"
    }
  ],
  "layout": {
    "panel_count": 3,
    "panels": [
      {
        "position": "top",
        "scene": "wide establishing shot of a snowy plain under a pale gray-blue sky with falling snow. A small crane stands far in the distance on the right side.",
        "text_count": 4,
        "texts": [
          "日本の昔話",
          "鶴の返し",
          "やさしさが運んだ、ふしぎな物語",
          "雪の日に始まった、ふしぎな出会い――"
        ]
      },
      {
        "position": "middle",
        "scene": "the young man discovers an injured crane in the snow. The crane stands with both wings spread in distress, one leg caught in a metal trap on the ground. The man is on the left, startled and rushing toward it.",
        "text_count": 3,
        "texts": [
          "その先にいたのは、傷ついた一羽の鶴。",
          "たいへんだ！",
          "バサッ"
        ]
      },
      {
        "position": "bottom",
        "scene": "the young man kneels in the snow and gently helps the crane, supporting its body with both hands as it relaxes and lifts its wings slightly.",
        "text_count": 3,
        "texts": [
          "この小さな親切が、運命を変える。",
          "もう大丈夫だ 空へお帰り",
          "ふわっ"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "composition": {
    "reading_direction": "right-to-left manga feel with vertical captions and speech balloons",
    "focus": "clear emotional progression from mystery to danger to kindness",
    "background_detail": "minimal atmospheric snowy gradients with distant sparse pines"
  },
  "generation_notes": "Render as a fully formed manga comic page with panel gutters, distinct Japanese typography, narration boxes, speech bubbles, and hand-drawn onomatopoeia sound effects."
}