Kintsugi
The Art of Kintsugi
Kintsugi ("Golden joinery"), also known as kintsukuroi ("Golden
repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the
areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold,
silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique.
As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of
an object, rather than something to disguise.
