Raku Tea Bowls

Originating in Kyoto during the late 1570s, Raku ware—celebrated for its rustic elegance and tactile charm—continues to be hand-shaped and fired using techniques developed by the esteemed potter Chojiro.

“The subtle asymmetrical rhythms of the tea bowls” are achieved by using a technique called “twist molding" and a rare firing method called Raku “pull-out” firing.

The raku bowls have long been “valued for its artistic potentialities of surface texture and color and for its practicality for tea bowls (because a somewhat thick and porous clay vessel is a bad conductor if heat and the bowl of hot fragrant tea could, therefore, be held comfortably in the hands” (A potter’s book by Bernard Leach)