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- noun Alternative capitalization of
Raku
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Examples
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In 1960 he began experimenting with the 16th-century Japanese technique called raku, which is used to fire the vessels for the tea ceremony.
NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM GRIMES 2011
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Potters around the world today use "raku" to describe a type of low-temperature firing that was inspired by Japanese Raku but which has morphed into something completely different, untethered to Japanese tradition.
Museum Blogs 2009
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Workshops devoted to Soldner's special areas of expertise -- raku, bonsai, and brush making -- will accompany the exhibition.
Bill Bush: Set Your Clocks To Pacific Standard Time: This Artweek.LA (August 22-September 4, 2011) Bill Bush 2011
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Workshops devoted to Soldner's special areas of expertise -- raku, bonsai, and brush making -- will accompany the exhibition.
Bill Bush: Set Your Clocks To Pacific Standard Time: This Artweek.LA (August 22-September 4, 2011) Bill Bush 2011
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The exhibition will illuminate his creative life as an artist and teacher, featuring many works he made at Scripps College, where he developed his distinctive approaches to raku and salt-fired ceramics.
Bill Bush: Set Your Clocks To Pacific Standard Time: This Artweek.LA (August 22-September 4, 2011) Bill Bush 2011
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The exhibition will illuminate his creative life as an artist and teacher, featuring many works he made at Scripps College, where he developed his distinctive approaches to raku and salt-fired ceramics.
Bill Bush: Set Your Clocks To Pacific Standard Time: This Artweek.LA (August 22-September 4, 2011) Bill Bush 2011
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Workshops devoted to Soldner's special areas of expertise -- raku, bonsai, and brush making -- will accompany the exhibition.
Bill Bush: Set Your Clocks To Pacific Standard Time: This Artweek.LA (August 22-September 4, 2011) Bill Bush 2011
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The exhibition will illuminate his creative life as an artist and teacher, featuring many works he made at Scripps College, where he developed his distinctive approaches to raku and salt-fired ceramics.
Bill Bush: Set Your Clocks To Pacific Standard Time: This Artweek.LA (August 22-September 4, 2011) Bill Bush 2011
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Their new life would be such a relief that they would dive hungrily into something formerly out of character: a study of medieval French literature or raku pottery classes.
i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010
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NQR (Not quilt related) ... but as arty types, I thought you guys might like to see these fabulous masks - these are some that my mother has raku-ed lately (my mother is a potter; she does a lot of masks) - I love these - especially the ones with the nails and other hardware in - and especially the first one.
NQR (Not quilt related) katelnorth 2008
srkrause commented on the word raku
ra·ku /ˈrɑku/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciationrah-koo Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
a thick-walled, rough, dark lead-glazed Japanese earthenware used in the tea ceremony.
Origin: 1870–75; < Japn raku(-yaki) “pleasure�? glaze, originated by Ch�?jir�? of Kyoto, who was given the seal-stamp with the character “pleasure�? from Hideyoshi as an artisan-household designation
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
March 2, 2008