Gold-Ground Screen Painting
Variant of Ukiyo-e · 14 words
Flat planes, strong contours, decorative colour blocks.
Tosa Mitsuyoshi (Japanese, 1539–1613) · Phoenixes and Paulownia · late 1500s · Cleveland Museum of Art（CC0） · CC0
From
Delta
+ gilding · + edge-to-edge · region → 日本（京都）
Feeling words
- flatness
- inking
- unmodulated colour
- registration
- indigo
- evanescence
- actor print
- topographical print
- close-up portrait
- erotic print
- decoration
- street culture
- gilding
- edge-to-edge
Generation prompt
Flattened street, bridgehead or beauty's half-length figure, pure flat colour inside thick black outlines, indigo, vermilion and cream, Prussian blue gradient in the sky band, garment folds cut with fine lines, frame split vertically and filled with pattern, no shading. Avoid oil impasto and deep perspective.