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It is the place where the thoughts are materialized. Raku Technique Raku is the technique of it burns ceramic and that it appeared, in agreement with the tradition, around 1580 in Kioto, Japan, through the master's ceramist Chojiro hands. Applied initially in the decoration of pieces used in the ceremony of the tea, Raku, with the successors' of Chojiro work, such like Tokunyu (séc. XVII) and Keinyu (séc. XIX). The fire has an essential paper in the technique Raku. It is he who gives the finish to the forms drawn by the artist. The process has beginning when the artist's hands give forms the a clay piece. After the painted piece and of the enamel already dry, the pieces are put in an oven, in which the temperature arrives to the 1000ºC. The "magic" happens in the reduction, when the piece is put in sawdust. It burns it of the sawdust and the abrupt reduction of the temperature, they give tones and they form broken that are done by the own force of the fire following by the cooling and that you/they give only characteristics to each piece.