# Onchi Kōshirō Book Design × Shin-Hanga — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=onchi-book-design+shin-hanga
# Onchi Kōshirō Book Design carries the structure and Shin-Hanga 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 Onchi Kōshirō Book Design (style, 1910s–1950s) and their accent from Shin-Hanga (style, 1915–1960s).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Onchi Kōshirō Book Design exists for: covers for poetry and collected works made as a print rather than as a holder for a picture, or few color printing where even the title lettering belongs to the image surface. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Onchi Kōshirō Book Design

- Covers built only from abstract shapes and flat colour, with no representational illustration
- Title lettering drawn by hand rather than set in type, sitting on the same surface as the image
- Few colours, with form made by overlapping planes instead of outlines
- The bare colour of the paper left showing, with the image laid straight onto it

Composition: The cover composed as one surface rather than as a picture with lettering added to it. Type and lettering: Title lettering drawn by hand instead of set in type, on the same surface and at the same weight as the image.

## Accent comes from Shin-Hanga, used sparingly

- The lyricism of night and rain
- Western treatment of light
- Precision of the carver-printer system
- Landscapes of travel

Let one material quality come from it: Graded bokashi on washi, rain lines carved thin on a separate block.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #f4e2cc, carry the structure in #cc7c26 and #0e0e0c, and let a single accent come from #708b9f. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: luxury, intimacy, calm, nostalgia.

## What goes wrong

- Onchi Kōshirō Book Design: Setting a representational picture into a frame turns the cover back into a place to put a picture, and the surface stops being a print.
- Shin-Hanga: Chasing only the mood of night and rain misses the tonal precision the carver and printer supply, and leaves nostalgia for a motif.

## 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/onchi-book-design/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/shin-hanga/design.md