# Karesansui × Roji (Tea Garden) — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=karesansui+roji
# Karesansui carries the structure and Roji (Tea Garden) appears as the accent.
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images that take their structure from Karesansui (style, Muromachi period–) and their accent from Roji (Tea Garden) (style, 16th century–).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Karesansui exists for: gardens for small plots and indoor courts where water cannot be used, or quiet waiting and seating spaces meant to be viewed from one position. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Karesansui

- Water implied in raked gravel
- Asymmetric stone groupings
- A fixed viewpoint from the veranda
- Radical subtraction

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.

## Accent comes from Roji (Tea Garden), used sparingly

- Stepping-stone pacing
- The tsukubai basin
- Outer and inner roji transition
- A hermitage within the city

Let one material quality come from it: Only the basin's water sound, moss and a lantern, no flower color.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #dbd1c9, carry the structure in #636a5c and #1d211a, and let a single accent come from #7c6b26. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: calm, trust, luxury, intimacy.

## Where they fight

- Karesansui and Roji (Tea Garden) both belong to Garden Styles, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
- Karesansui and Roji (Tea Garden) stand roughly 214 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.

## What goes wrong

- 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.
- Roji (Tea Garden): Laying the stepping stones at even intervals tidies them into ornament and disables the device that breaks a walker's rhythm and makes them stop.

## Across the four

Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.

Design specs for each entry: https://indexstyle.org/styles/karesansui/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/roji/design.md