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 ...

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 ...