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context: ceramics > tea ceremony

a red-glaze Raku tea jar

Raku Ware

This is the style that we most think of when we think of wares for tea. This is, some say, where Japan's worship of the irregular in art started...

Chojiro

Why so admired?

backwards: shino

forwards: oribe