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Japanese Raku Pottery Artist
About Raku Yanagida
In 2017, during a residency at Kyoto’s Kiyomizu-dera temple grounds, Raku Yanagida pioneered the 'Kage-firing' method, introducing controlled, low-oxygen micro-chambers inside traditional horsehair raku kilns to produce gradated ash veils that mimic the subtle tonal shifts of ink-wash painting. Unlike her Edo-period ancestors who fired for ceremonial tea bowls, she deliberately fractures symmetry: each piece bears a single, hand-scored fissure aligned with the winter solstice sunrise, then sealed with urushi lacquer infused with powdered local river clay. Her 2022 solo exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo featured 13 vessels arranged in a spiral echoing the growth pattern of bamboo, each responding differently to post-firing reduction based on its position, humidity, and the exact moment of lid-lift. She refuses electric kilns entirely, relying only on charcoal-fired anagama derivatives built with reclaimed Meiji-era brick. Her work doesn’t reinterpret tradition, it interrogates its thermal memory.
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- “How does your Kage-firing method alter the way ash settles on a piece?”
- “Why do you score exactly one fissure—and always align it with solstice light?”
- “What happens when urushi lacquer meets raku-fired clay from the Kamo River?”
- “Can you explain why you reject electric kilns, even for consistency?”