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Raku
Definition
The word Raku comprises in its significance the concepts of joy, ease and happiness.
Description
This word comes from an ideogram engraved on a gold seal, which was offered in 1598 by Taiko, Master being useful of the ceremony of the tea, in Chojiro Raku, which one claims to be the first to implement this ceremony. Chojiro Raku created at that time, in Japan, a rough pottery related to the ceremony of the tea. This pottery is cooked at low temperature (750° with 980°). Enamelled or not, it is withdrawn incandescent furnace, to be plunged in straw, sawdust or even paper, in order to be smoked out there. In oxygen reduction, the lampblack is fixed in an indelible way, the enamels charged with oxides (copper, money, cobalt, etc.) their metallized glosses produce.
Author
Arafath Hassan
Author Email
arafath_iiuc2004@yahoo.com
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