Kintsugi is a technique used to repair objects using lacquer and gold. In the mountain village of Yamanaka Onsen, Ishikawa Prefecture, a kintsugi workshop is inundated with repair requests from ...

Using lacquer to reassemble broken vessels by pasting shards together and coating with gold or silver powder, a technique known as kintsugi.In Western cultures, repairs aim to return a piece to ...

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 ...

Kintsugi is a traditional Japanese craft technique that utilizes lacquer and gold to repair broken ceramic pieces. Kunio Nakamura, the 52-year-old kintsugi artist who operates Rokujigen ...

This became the work of maki-e (“sprinkled pictures”) artisans, who began painting the broken parts with lacquer and sprinkling them with gold. Over the years, kintsugi has taken various forms ...

“Kintsugi” is a traditional technique that utilizes lacquer and gold to repair broken pieces of ceramic. The workshop was held at the former residence of the Toma family in the Takabatake ...