# Moss Garden × Roji (Tea Garden) — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=moss-garden+roji
# Moss Garden carries the structure. Roji (Tea 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 Moss Garden (Style, 14th century–) and its accent from Roji (Tea Garden) (Style, 16th century–). Structural cues: Gradations of moss; Designed dappled light; Time as the main material; The presence of humidity. Accent cues, used sparingly: Stepping-stone pacing; The tsukubai basin; Outer and inner roji transition; A hermitage within the city. Composition: Treat the ground as one continuous surface divided by path and stone. Type and lettering: No plant labels, with species read as differences in green. Let one material quality come from the second style: Only the basin's water sound, moss and a lantern, no flower color. Mood: Calm, Intimacy, Nostalgia, Luxury. 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
# - 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.
# - 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.

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