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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 10579423, member: 45&quot;]The problem is, there are two types of pottery called &quot;raku.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>There is traditional Japanese Raku, which dates back to the 1500s, and often is associated with the tea ceremony.&nbsp; Plus,&nbsp;&nbsp; there is also American raku, which was developed by American potter Paul Soldner, in the 1960s, in an attempt to duplicate the Japanese style.&nbsp; He ended up with American raku, or post-firing reduction, a different type of &quot;raku.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Here is his explanation, in an article he wrote himself:&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://www.paulsoldner.com/essays/american-raku" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.paulsoldner.com/essays/american-raku" rel="nofollow">https://www.paulsoldner.com/essays/american-raku</a>&nbsp; .</p><p><br /></p><p>Japanese Raku, on the other hand, refers to a family name, given to the inventor of the style, and the first pottery to use a seal as to authenticity. </p><p><br /></p><p>Today, most American potters use a capital &quot;R&quot; to indicate that Japanese is different from American raku, in that it refers to a Japanese process, and a family name, (which no one else can use.)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But sometimes it is not capitalized, and the general public doesn&#039;t know the difference, so confusion continues.&nbsp; Plus, both American raku, and Japanese Raku can now be found all over the world, so this is just a piece of studio pottery, but very attractive.&nbsp; KM being the potter.</p><p><br /></p><p>American raku always has the unglazed portion of the pot with the black marks, indicating it was fired in an oxygen-reduced atmosphere.&nbsp; This is simply a Japanese-style of crackle glaze pottery.&nbsp; Whether it is actual Raku, depends on if it has the seal.&nbsp; It is not American raku, since the un-glazed portion of the pot is not black.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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