A single song. Nine measures that traveled three centuries, crossed an ocean, and became the thing Japan hummed to itself when it needed to remember what gentleness sounds like. The animation doesn't move much. It doesn't need to. You're watching something that already knows exactly what it is, and it's letting you sit with it until you understand too.
Amaryllis is a single-episode music entry built around a well-known tune. The melody comes from the closing bars of a ballet passage about the bell that marks Circe leaving her garden. In the nineteenth century, Henry Ghys arranged it and wrongly credited it to an air by Louis XIII. Fitted with Japanese lyrics, the arrangement was presented as "Amaryllis" on NHK's Minna no Uta in 1968. In Japan it is now widely thought of as a French folk song, and some schools and rural towns play it over loudspeakers to mark the hour.
