Black Raku chawan, or tea bowls, are currently gaining global attention. The founder of the Raku family of potters created this implement at the request of Sen no Rikyū, who elevated the Japanese tea ...

Once-popular five-year-old Japanese restaurant Aburiya Raku (often known simply as Raku) has quietly closed. While the restaurant’s website and phone continue to detail takeout hours, the business ...

Raku is known as earthenware that is fired at low temperature. But few people are aware that its roots go back to the chawan (tea bowls) that Chōjirō, the first head of the Raku family, crafted for ...

The “rather serious” restaurant on La Cienega is a lovely place for grilled meat skewers, particularly those with high price tags: One tipoff that Raku hails from Sin City is its proclivity for using ...