Raku ware
Cerámica raku
- Date
- c. 1580 · confidence medium
- Place
- Kyoto, Japan
- Credited to
- Chōjirō
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
Hand-shaped Japanese pottery, highly porous due to low firing temperatures, glazed with lead glazes and removed from the kiln while still glowing hot; traditionally used for tea-ceremony bowls.
Developed by potter Chōjirō under the patronage of tea master Sen no Rikyū; the modern Western process differs from the traditional Japanese one.
What it led to
- The wabi-sabi aesthetic consolidated in the tea ceremony
- A Western version of raku developed by 20th-century studio potters
Built on
- Traditional Japanese pottery