# Kintsugi

Type: Clipping
Date: 2026-06-02
Tags: Kintsugi, Ceramics, Repair, Gold, Japanese, Blue and white
Hero image: /content-assets/clippings/clipping_images/kintsugi.jpg
Hero image alt: A blue-and-white porcelain bowl repaired with kintsugi, its cracks filled with visible gold seams.
Canonical: https://www.aaronroot.net/clippings/kintsugi

Kintsugi is the Japanese practice of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed or dusted with gold. The breaks are joined rather than hidden, leaving the seams visible as gold lines. Shown here on a blue-and-white porcelain tea bowl.