clayart - thread 'was:non functional? now: origins of raku - lee?'

clayart - thread 'was:non functional? now: origins of raku - lee?':

"The monk that traveled to China with Dogen brought back the first glaze
technologies from Sung China, but not the noborigama:
The legendary Toshiro, also known as Kato Shirozaemon Kagemasa (1169 -
1249), went to China with the Zen monk Dogen around 1223. Upon his return
in 1228, he established the first Seto kiln and began to make glazed wares
in a Chinese style, imitating Chinese celadon."