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CHENANGO, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) -Local students combined fire and horse hair to make beautiful bowls and other types of pottery.

Local high school students got a firsthand experience with an ancient Japanese ceramic technique today. Raku firing is an ...

Raku is known as earthenware that is fired at low temperature. But few people are aware that its roots go back to the chawan (tea bowls) that Chōjirō, the first head of the Raku family, crafted for ...

Black Raku chawan, or tea bowls, are currently gaining global attention. The founder of the Raku family of potters created this implement at the request of Sen no Rikyū, who elevated the Japanese tea ...

For 15 generations, just one family has crafted the hand-sculpted (rather than wheel-thrown) Japanese pottery known as Raku, which uses a low-fire technique to produce ceramic objects that bear an ...

If you keep up with the food magazines, I’m guessing you know about the original Aburiya Raku, even if you’ve never quite made it out to the place. It’s the loud, informal Japanese restaurant in Las ...

Once-popular five-year-old Japanese restaurant Aburiya Raku (often known simply as Raku) has quietly closed. While the restaurant’s website and phone continue to detail takeout hours, the business ...

An American Chinese concept is set to open a new location in South Jersey, as The Wok prepares to open its fourth location in Cherry Hill. The new restaurant will take over the former Raku space at ...

Raku is a traditional Japanese ceramic firing technique from the 16th century. The pots were usually hand-formed from a red clay and used for tea ceremonies. Today, potters are attracted by Raku’s ...