# Raku Ware (楽焼) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.513 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/raku-ware
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Raku Ware, a style from Ceramic Styles, 16th century–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: making vessels or ceramic lighting where every piece is expected to come out different, or stepping away from industrial uniformity to keep an object light and warm in the hand. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Glaze that pools thickly and crawls to a stop short of the rim
- A fine crackle across the whole glazed surface, left by the sudden cooling
- Bare foot rings and bases where the soft porous body shows through unglazed
- Colour variation that lands in a different place and amount on every piece from one firing

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: Sized for the hand, with an uneven rim and no fixed front, meant to be turned while looked at
- Type and lettering: Keep text off the body, with at most a single small mark under the foot
- Material and surface: A lead glaze that melts at low heat. The piece is lifted from the kiln with tongs mid firing and cooled in open air, which leaves the body porous
- Colour: #CFC6B4 carries the ground, #9C5B41 is the colour the style is remembered by, #232019 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: calm, technique, intimacy

## What goes wrong

Drawing crackle and warping on as surface pattern puts the lines where no stress ever ran, and the result reads as decoration rather than as the record of a firing.

## 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/raku-ware/design.md