Raku glazing

[Fuut]

Hi,

I was thinking to myself about how most raku are glazed, regardless of color glaze. You see both quite often but i'm wondering what the reason for it is, and whether or not people like just one type or both or just don't care.

I'm quite in for the fully glazed ones, but to each his own. Whats your pick?

[William]

I personally prefer the kodai to be fully glazed on raku pieces, especially on kuro ones.

[Tead Off]

Hi,

I was thinking to myself about how most raku are glazed, regardless of color glaze. You see both quite often but i'm wondering what the reason for it is, and whether or not people like just one type or both or just don't care.

I'm quite in for the fully glazed ones, but to each his own. Whats your pick?

I have 2 raku bowls that are unglazed on the kodai. I don't see any traces of clear glazing. Both are within 100 years of age. Could the clear glazing have eroded over time?

[hobin]

I've voted "unglazed".
In general to me glazed raku (especially black) look somehow "purer", more abstract while in the unglazed chaps the earthy bottom has a humbler feeling, more down to earth...
My raku chawan are for the most part glazed, however. but I tend to use the unglazed more

I don't usually care about the red ones, not my bowl of tea...

[Fuut]

Babump to the top. Need more votes.

[Tsubo]

I don't have any preference

Could the clear glazing have eroded over time?

No ... or while not totally i think

[Tead Off]

I don't have any preference

Could the clear glazing have eroded over time?

No ... or while not totally i think

That would mean that there are actually 3 Kodai glazing choices with Raku:
Glazed
Clear glazed
Unglazed

[hobin]

I don't have any preference

Could the clear glazing have eroded over time?

No ... or while not totally i think

That would mean that there are actually 3 Kodai glazing choices with Raku:
Glazed
Clear glazed
Unglazed

for what is worth, I've checked my raku archive (I've been hoarding raku pics since years...) and it seems that old raku with open kodai haven't got that transparent glaze: the only transparent glaze you see is the one on decorated raku, obtained by scraping off the black glaze.
so maybe it's a recent (XX cent.) feature...

[Alex]

Prefer the contrast of unglazed

[hobin]

I guess I found an explanation to the shiny transparent glaze:

see here:

http://www.raku-yaki.or.jp/e/museum/col ... on_14.html

A glazing known as “jakatsuyû”, jakatsu glaze, a silica-based white glaze being applied together with a black glaze to create a glaze effect in which the misty white tone emerging on the edge of the flowing black glaze, was already introduced by Dônyû III. Here Seinyû with his research on glazing developed this glazing effect further to achieve a crystallized white. “Araiso”, stormy coast, derives from this glaze texture.

could a tiny layer of this glaze be what is sometimes found on the kodai?