On a recent day, a non-Japanese citizen was using a brush to dust cracks in a bowl with gold in an indirectly lit space with a warm ambience on the second floor of a building in Tokyo. Matias Canosa, ...

Japan is full of ancient traditional arts. One of those is kintsugi, the art of bringing new life to cracked ceramics by mending them with gold. This kintsugi experience is growing in popularity, ...

Naoko Fukumaru working on kinstugi. Portland Japanese Garden in Oregon is thrilled to present Kintsugi: The Restorative Art of Naoko Fukumaru in the Pavilion and Calvin/ Mayho Tanabe Galleries now ...

The ancient Japanese technique of Kintsugi, which means 'golden joinery', provides a unique viewpoint on dealing with failures and setbacks. This centuries-old technique includes restoring shattered ...

Imagine a beloved object: a cup, a plate or a bowl. Perhaps your favourite auntie owned it, or was it found in another country and shipped safely home? Now it is broken, fallen into a small handful of ...

Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, is a beautiful metaphor for embracing flaws and imperfections. This centuries-old ...