# Bonsai × Ikebana — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=bonsai+ikebana
# Bonsai carries the structure. Ikebana appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Bonsai (Style, Heian period–) and its accent from Ikebana (Style, 15th century–). Structural cues: Miniature scenery in a pot; Trunk line and branch pads; Root spread and patina; Care across generations. Accent cues, used sparingly: Composition by line; Asymmetric balance; Designed emptiness; Season and decay accepted. Composition: Branch pads offset in depth, always leaving the trunk visible. Type and lettering: Fix one trunk line, upright or curving, and subordinate every branch. Let one material quality come from the second style: The vase mouth decides the fixing, water and cut end left visible. Mood: Calm, Luxury, Intimacy. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Where the two fight
# - Both belong to Garden Styles, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Bonsai: Rushing the shape through repeated wiring and cutting leaves scars and unnatural angles, and the tree loses its argument of age.
# - Ikebana: Adding flowers to fill the gaps makes the lines cancel each other, the emptiness goes, and the work becomes just a bouquet.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/bonsai/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/ikebana/design.md