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 ...

The ancient Japanese art of kintsugi has existed for thousands of years as a method of mending broken pottery. Now, it’s taking off in the UK as a popular crafting activity, but why? As I ...

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 ...

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 ...

“They’re beautiful because they have a story.” My thoughts are suddenly interrupted by renowned kintsugi master Showzi Tsukamoto, the man behind the creation of the bowls. For the past five ...

Kintsugi says its AI needs only 20 seconds of voice audio to analyze speech for signs of depression and anxiety. That screening capability is being integrated into call centers, telehealth ...

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 ...