Unlike the Shino and Oribe bowls, raku pieces were not decorated with designs or spots of color; they were wabi and sabi with unpretentious, weathered grace.
Chojiro's descendants became the raku dynasty, as generation after generation they set the standards for others to follow.
Unquestionably Japan's most original contribution to the history of ceramics, raku is produced in a manner entirely different from earlier techniques, and it is impossible to speak of raku without speaking of Zen.
But the most appealing qualities of the raku were its sculptural sense of natural plastic form and its soft, bubbly, almost liquid glaze, which virtually invites one to hold it in his lips.
Raku wares were first made in black with an iron-like glaze that is almost like frozen lava, but the later repertory included glazes that were partly or wholly red or off-white.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raku" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
