This is a sample of what the World Tree app on mobile has to offer. It works wherever you take it, in real life or virtually.

Sample selfie · Kyoto

With Murasaki Shikibu, at Ishiyama-dera.

Murasaki Shikibu
Selfie with a legend
Murasaki Shikibu · c. 973 – c. 1014

The composite above is a stand-in. In the app, the camera does the hard work.

Figure

Murasaki Shikibu

Author of The Tale of Genji

Where

Ishiyama-dera

Kyoto

Take it yourself in the app.

World Tree drops any historical figure into any place you can point your camera at. Era, landmark, time of day — you pick. The composite happens on-device.

Take a selfie with Murasaki

Other legends

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