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 ...