For centuries in Japan, when precious tea bowls break, the families of tea masters will often keep the broken bowls for generations and later have them mended by artisans who use a lavish technique ...

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, ...

SONOMA, Calif. (KGO) -- In her Sonoma home, artist Maki Aizawa holds a broken plate. "When something breaks, we tend to throw it away," she said. "But we don't have to throw it away and don't have to ...

The “golden repair” mindset encourages us to see failure as a chance to grow—a lesson we can apply to our own lives. Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese art form that offers a profound metaphor for ...

Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese art where broken pottery is repaired with gold lacquer. The artwork transforms broken objects into beautiful masterpieces. Kintsugi symbolizes embracing beauty in ...