Kintsugi (金継ぎ, “golden joinery”), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, “golden repair”), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
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Typed on coffee-dyed grid paper with a 1950’s Groma Kolibri. Japanese kanji painted with watercolour and water brush on watercolour paper. Sakura sticker from this package.
P.S. I also practiced the kanji for kintsukuroi, but the middle character is so tricky, I didn’t think I was doing it justice. More practice needed.
