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Raku ware (楽焼, raku-yaki) is a type of Japanese pottery traditionally used in Japanese tea ceremonies, most often in the form of chawan tea bowls. It is traditionally characterised by being hand-shaped rather than thrown, fairly porous vessels, which result from low firing temperatures, lead glazes and the removal of pieces from the kiln ...
Horse hair vase. Horse hair raku is a method of decorating pottery through the application of horsehair and other dry carbonaceous material to the heated ware. The burning carbonaceous material creates smoke patterns and carbon trails on the surface of the heated ware that remain as decoration after the ware cools.
The influential tea master Sen no Rikyū (1522–1591) turned to native Japanese styles of simple rustic pottery, often imperfect, which he admired for their "rugged spontaneity", a "decisive shift" of enormous importance for the development of Japanese pottery. [13] The Raku family (named after the pottery rather than the other way round ...
10. Textured Glaze - Designed to create raised or recessed textures. - Adds visual and tactile interest to pottery. 11. Raku Glaze - Specifically designed for raku firing, where pottery is removed from the kiln while still hot. - Produces crackled textures and unique, unpredictable patterns. - Often used for artistic or decorative purposes. 12.
About 1911 he attended a Raku-yaki pottery party which was his first introduction to ceramics, and through introduction by Ishii Hakutei, he began to study under Urano Shigekichi 浦野繁吉 (1851–1923), who stood as Kenzan 6th in the tradition of potter Ogata Kenzan (1663–1743).
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Raku may refer to: Lake Raku, an artificial lake in Tallinn, Estonia; Raku ware, a type of pottery used in the Japanese tea ceremony; Raku, Nepal, a village in the Karnali Zone; RAkU, a ballet by Yuri Possokhov; Raku (programming language), a computer language formerly known as Perl 6; Raku (wrestler) (born 1997), Japanese professional wrestler
The Bahamas has “firmly rejected” President-election Donald Trump's proposal to fly deported immigrants out of the U.S. and into the small island nation about 100 miles southeast of Florida ...