{"product_id":"aka-raku-tea-bowl-by-sasaki-shoraku-kyoto","title":"Aka-Raku Tea Bowl by Sasaki Shoraku, Kyoto","description":"✦ AKA-RAKU CHAWAN — SASAKI SHORAKU\u003cbr\u003eRed Raku Tea Bowl with Fire Landscape\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003cbr\u003e• Item: Chawan (tea bowl) with tomobako (original box)\u003cbr\u003e• Artist: Sasaki Shoraku (Kyoto)\u003cbr\u003e• Type: Aka-raku (red raku)\u003cbr\u003e• Material: Raku clay with red iron oxide glaze\u003cbr\u003e• Dimensions: Diameter approx. 11 cm \/ Height approx. 8.3 cm\u003cbr\u003e• Period: 2010s\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: No cracks or chips. Box has minor corner dent.\u003cbr\u003e• Includes: Original wooden box (tomobako) inscribed 昭楽造 with artist seal\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ CULTURAL INSIGHT ]\u003cbr\u003eRaku ware carries a different logic than wheel-thrown ceramics. There is no mechanical repetition, no measured symmetry. Each bowl is shaped entirely by hand — thumb, palm, and the resistance of the clay itself. The result is a form that holds the body's memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn aka-raku, iron oxide in the glaze fires to the characteristic deep crimson. But the fire never reads neutrally. Where the kiln's atmosphere shifts — oxygen, smoke, temperature — the surface records it. The dark passages crossing this bowl are not painted. They are the fire's own authorship.\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE ]\u003cbr\u003eSasaki Shoraku works within the raku tradition in Kyoto — a lineage defined by hand-building, single-fire technique, and the aesthetic of deliberate imperfection. His aka-raku bowls are known for the density of their surface: the crimson does not read as flat color, but as depth, as something accumulated rather than applied.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis bowl demonstrates that quality. The black-gray fire marks are not distributed decoratively. They move across the surface with the logic of weather — concentrated in some passages, dispersed in others. The form itself has the settled weight of a piece that was not hurried. Shoraku's inscription on the tomobako is direct and unadorned, fully in character with the work inside.\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ 日本語解説 ]\u003cbr\u003e佐々木昭楽作の赤楽茶碗です。赤釉に黒灰の景色が力強く映える一碗。手捻りの柔らかな形と、共箱の「昭楽造」の墨書が、作家の誠実な仕事ぶりを伝えています。割れ・欠けなし。箱角に軽微な凹みあり。\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ SHIPPING \u0026amp; PACKAGING ]\u003cbr\u003e• Dispatch: Within 1-6 business days\u003cbr\u003e• Carrier: Japan Post EMS \/ UPS (with tracking)\u003cbr\u003e• Packaging: Carefully wrapped with protective materials","brand":"The Modern Zen Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61626883637618,"sku":"260228_a_2177","price":1034.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m54045305070_1.jpg?v=1772290595","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/aka-raku-tea-bowl-by-sasaki-shoraku-kyoto","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}