# Karesansui × Moss Garden — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=karesansui+moss-garden
# Karesansui carries the structure. Moss Garden 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 Karesansui (Style, Muromachi period–) and its accent from Moss Garden (Style, 14th century–). Structural cues: Water implied in raked gravel; Asymmetric stone groupings; A fixed viewpoint from the veranda; Radical subtraction. Accent cues, used sparingly: Gradations of moss; Designed dappled light; Time as the main material; The presence of humidity. Composition: Fix one viewpoint from the veranda and group stones in odd numbers. Type and lettering: No signage, and no naming of what the stones stand for. Let one material quality come from the second style: Thin the canopy for dappled light and manage even how much litter falls. Mood: Calm, Trust, Luxury, Intimacy, Nostalgia. 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
# - Karesansui: Adding more stones to create points of interest fills up the emptiness, kills the suggestion of water, and leaves nothing but a bed of gravel.
# - Moss Garden: The finished look is demanded from the first year, moss gets laid wall to wall without fixing light and drainage, and it dies back to bare soil.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/karesansui/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/moss-garden/design.md