On a recent day, a non-Japanese citizen was using a brush to dust cracks in a bowl with gold in an indirectly ... lacquer and gold to repair broken ceramic pieces. Kunio Nakamura, the 52-year ...

In the 500 year old art of Kintsugi, which translates more or less as ‘joining with gold’, broken pottery is repaired with a seam of lacquer and precious metal. Trust the Japanese to ...

KAWAGOE, Saitama -- Numerous broken ceramic grenades lying in the bottom of the Binnuma River, the old Arakawa River channel flowing along the borders of the cities of Saitama, Kawagoe and Fujimi ...