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 ...

At midnight the night before I left for Japan to learn kintsugi, the ancient art of repairing broken pottery, my parents’ kitchen cabinet came crashing to the ground. My dog and I slept through ...

urged Japanese craftsmen to come up with a more pleasing method of repair. In the 500 year old art of Kintsugi, which translates more or less as ‘joining with gold’, broken pottery is repaired ...