I am very sentimental about the objects in my life. Not just my grandmother’s amethyst cocktail ring or my first childhood drawings, but also the electric pencil sharpener I inherited from my mom and ...

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, ...

Roughly translating as ‘joining with gold’, the ancient repair technique uses urushi lacquer and powdered gold to restore broken teaware, based on the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi: finding beauty ...

NARA--When a foreign national is invited to give a workshop on a quintessential Japanese craft technique like “kintsugi,” chances are that person is very good at what they do. Such was the case with ...

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, so the saying goes. But what if ‘it’ is a) actually broken and b) a treasured ceramic piece? That’s where the Japanese art form of kintsugi comes in. Roughly ...