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‖ raku|ˈraku|
Also Raku.
[Jap., lit. ease, relaxed state, enjoyment: see quot. 1882.]
A kind of lead-glazed Japanese pottery, often used as tea-bowls and similar utensils. Also attrib.
1875Audsley & Bowes Keramic Art Japan I. 52 Raku is occasionally covered with lacquer, and it is made in other places than in Kioto. 1882C. Dresser Japan ii. iv. 371 Shôgun Taikosama..honoured this particular manufacture with a golden seal, on which the character ‘raku’ (meaning enjoyment) was engraved... The competition for objects specially valued (as some of these black raku cups) was such that wars were often waged between Daimios with the sole view of possessing certain coveted goods. 1890B. H. Chamberlain Things Japanese 278 The Raku-yaki of Kyōto is the parent of all the rest... The Raku faience owed much of its popularity to the patronage of the ‘tea clubs’. 1960B. Leach Potter in Japan ii. 51 One bowl was old Corean and the other, used alternately, was a ‘Doniu’ black raku. 1970Oxf. Compan. Art 610 The famous Raku is a very soft glazed ware widely used for deliberately misshapen vessels. 1979C. McCarry Better Angels ii. i. 105 The elegant old man pouring tea into Raku bowls. |