How to make a raku chawan / Comment créer un bol raku / 楽茶碗製作過程

------ Sasaki Sensei (The first name of Sasaki sensei is not 大和 but 虚室 : 佐々木虚室 ) from 松楽 (Shoraku : ) in Kameoka, grants us the amazing privilege of showing all the steps needed in order to create a japanese black raku tea bowl. The Raku technique in Japan has nothing to do with what westerners refers to when they make “raku“. 1) Take 1kg of a mix of Shigaraki soil and X (no chamotte is needed) 2) Shape it roughly (wait a bit to create the foot) 3) Keep in a vinyl from one week to 10 days so that it loses 50g of water (the bowl is then 950g) 4) Shape it finely by using tools (make your owns). The bowl is then 350g. 5) Dry it one night in an oven around 850 degrees C to remove any humidity 6) Apply, with a brush, four coatings (wait that each coating dries before applying the next one) made from crush stones (there’s no more stones from Kamogawa but some stones from X are exactly the same) and glass powder ( ). The coating looks viole