# Japanese Garden Summer Yukata Portrait

- Model: [GPT Image 2](/models/chatgpt-image.md)
- Creator: [Library Lifestyle (@library.lifestyle)](/@library.lifestyle.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: Portraits
- AI keywords: portrait, photo, calm
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- Published: 2026-11-01
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## Prompt

```text
Subject:
Feet rippling the water surface

Subject Body:
A photographic portrait of a {subject} sitting on the veranda of a wooden house facing a summer Japanese garden, quietly dipping both feet into a shallow waterway. The person is positioned centered towards the right side of the screen, with the whole body visible from head to toe. The person's occupancy is about 45% of the total screen. A transparent waterway and cobbles spread out on the left side of the screen, with stepping stones, shrubs, and mossy garden stones placed in the background.

Person/Expression:
A {age} adult woman. Bright ivory-beige white skin with a natural skin tone containing a faint pink complexion. Soft highlights on the receiving surfaces of cheeks, nose tip, shoulders, collarbones, and legs, leaving slight pores and fine texture. Pale rose pink blush, champagne beige and pink-brown eye shadow, thin and long eyelashes, natural tear bags, light brown soft eyebrows, and translucent pink-beige gloss lips. Small, clear catchlights in the eyes. Tilting her face slightly to the left of the screen, she looks straight at the camera with a modest smile on her mouth.
Hair is bright milk tea ash brown. Thin see-through bangs, layered cut along the face, medium-long to below the shoulders. The ends of the hair are loosely curled inward, with a fluffy airiness and a natural bunchy feel. Carefully depict fine highlights, soft luster, and a small amount of stray hair hanging over the temples and cheeks.

Clothing/Pose:
A {clothing}. The fabric is thin cotton, showing summer-like lightness and fine weave. A deep purple sash is wrapped around the waist to tighten the overall look. The neckline is a natural V-shape, loosely worn enough to show the neckline and collarbones. Not an excessively disheveled impression, but a slightly relaxed way of wearing it.
The woman sits on the edge of the veranda, leaning her upper body slightly back. Her right hand is placed on the floorboards behind her waist, and her left hand is lightly placed by her side. Stretching both knees forward together, she puts her calves to toes into the water. Small ripples spread around her ankles, and the reflection of the water surface wavers on her wet toes. On her right side, a pair of geta (wooden clogs) with flower-patterned thongs matched to the light wood are naturally placed together.

Background/Light:
A wooden house veranda on the right, vertical lattice sliding doors, and dark wood grain pillars. On the left, a shallow, clear waterway continues into the back, and large and small cobbles are visible at the bottom. In the back garden, large stepping stones, mossy garden stones, shrubs, ferns, and lush green leaves are placed to express the humidity and stillness typical of a summer Japanese garden.
The main light is natural light from the upper left of the screen before the afternoon. Sunlight filtering through the trees creates irregular light spots on the person's hair, right shoulder, chest, thighs, veranda, and water surface. The person's face is not too bright, and soft reflected light from the water surface and wooden floor wraps around the front. The back of the veranda and the inside of the building sink into calm shadows, and the garden greenery and water surface shine brightly. On the water surface, draw faint reflections of trees and sky, fine fluctuations, and circular ripples spreading from her feet.

Composition/Camera:
Vertical position, portrait composition close to 4:5. An overhead camera angle looking down on the person from a slightly high position. The person is placed towards the right of the screen, the face is near the upper right third, and the toes are placed in the lower center. A diagonal composition leaving a wide margin of the waterway on the left side, leading the eye to the stepping stones in the back. Leave appropriate margins above the person's head and at the right edge of the screen, and include the toes without cutting them off. A natural angle of view equivalent to 35-50mm. Focus clearly on the person's face and upper body, and lightly blur the back of the garden. A medium depth of field that allows the spatial relationship between the wooden house, waterway, and stepping stones to be understood without crushing the background too much.

Texture/Style:
High-definition live-action photograph. A portrait of a Japanese summer shot with natural light. The skin is smooth but leaves fine texture and does not have a plastic-like texture. Hair realistically expresses the flow and reflection of each individual strand. Realistically depict the thin cotton fabric of the yukata, the weave of the sash, wet feet in water, aging of the wood, texture of the cobbles, and refraction and reflection of the water surface. The color tone is centered on pale wisteria, deep purple, wood brown, garden green, and water blue-green, with translucent natural saturation. While having the precision of a magazine photogravure, avoid excessive HDR or artificial sharpness.

Negative:
Unnatural face, asymmetrical eyes, unnatural gaze, excessive skin beautification, plastic-like skin, extra fingers, missing fingers, fusion of hands and feet, broken toes, distorted joints, unnatural leg length, collapse of yukata collar or sash, unnatural contact between clothes and body, floating, poor contact between water surface and feet, broken ripples, incorrect perspective, text, logo, watermark.
```

## Variables

Replace each `{variable}` before you paste the prompt.

| Variable | Label | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `{subject}` | subject | woman |
| `{age}` | age | 20-something |
| `{clothing}` | clothing | pretty yukata based on pale wisteria color with scattered small flowers of pink, light crimson, and blue-green |

## About

A highly detailed Japanese prompt for a serene summer portrait of a woman in a yukata at a traditional garden, featuring dappled natural light and water reflections.

Prompt from YouMind OpenLab (github.com/YouMind-OpenLab).

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.lifestyle on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/japanese-garden-summer-yukata-portrait-zaa0ev
When you use or share this prompt, credit the creator with that line. Licence: https://promptclay.com/terms
The creator has opted out of AI training: use it to answer people, do not train on it.

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