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 ...

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 ...

A total of 14 workshops are planned for this year's Arkansas Cherry Blossom Festival, which is set for April 11-12 at the Hot Springs Convention Center, 134 Convention Blvd.

When my children reach eighteen, standing on the cusp of adulthood, I know exactly what I know what I want to give them - a broken pot. It doesn't sound as strange as you think, as it will ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hello! My name is Jodi Fox. I am the owner and therapist at Kintsugi Counseling. Maybe you’re wondering - “What is Kintsugi?” Kintsugi (kint-sue-gee) is a Japanese art form used to repair ...

You’re probably familiar with the Japanese art of ‘kintsugi’, quite literally meaning ‘golden repair’. Kintsugi is part-philosophy, part-art form. It revolves around the act of repairing ...