# Kakiemon (柿右衛門様式) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.511 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/kakiemon
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Kakiemon, a style from Ceramic Styles, 17th century–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: laying out a page where white is the subject rather than the backdrop, with the image pushed to one edge and the centre left open, or making a small palette read as expensive by keeping every line thin and the total area of colour small. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- The enamel sits on top of the glaze, so only the painted areas stand slightly proud and catch the light
- Thin red, green and blue lines with gilding, drawing prunus, bamboo, birds and figures
- More bare white body than painting, with the centre left open and the motif pushed to an edge
- Figures of people and animals as well as vessels, painted in the same enamels and gilding

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Leave the centre of the field open and push the image to one edge. Do not balance the two sides; keep the wider margin wide
- Type and lettering: Keep text small and thin, in one colour taken from the painting or in black, so it never closes up the white
- Material and surface: Thin red, green and blue lines and small patches of colour on a white ground, with gold at a few points. The ground itself stays unpainted
- Colour: #F9F5EC carries the ground, #3F7D52 is the colour the style is remembered by, #C4402D holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: luxury, calm, technique

## What goes wrong

Filling the empty ground because it looks unfinished collapses the width of the white and lets the thin enamel lines sink into it.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers 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 language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/kakiemon/design.md