“People probably feel ‘purified’ or ‘forgiven’ as they think of the pottery works as their own selves and face up to their own hearts,” Nakamura said. “Those who practice kintsugi ...

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 ...

Translating to “golden repair,” Kintsugi involves repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with gold, silver or platinum. Rather than concealing fractures, Kintsugi celebrates them ...

The ancient Japanese art of kintsugi has existed for thousands of years as a method of mending broken pottery ... that when Ashikaga sent a cracked tea bowl to China to be repaired, he was ...