- Raku ware
- Raku ware Ra"ku ware` (r[aum]"k[=oo] w[^a]r`). A kind of earthenware made in Japan, resembling Satsuma ware, but having a paler color. [1913 Webster]
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Raku ware — A 16th century black Raku style chawan, used for thick tea (Tokyo National Museum) File:Tea bowl with designs of pine boughs and interlocking circles, unknown raku ware workshop, Kyoto, 18th 19th Cent, Freer Gallery of Art.jpg Tea bowl with… … Wikipedia
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