KINTSUGI is an original Japanese repair method that involves bonding broken or chipped ceramics with lacquer, decorating the joint with gold, silver or tin, and sealing the joint. Unfortunately, even in today's materialistic Japan, there are many people who do not know about KINTSUGI and its culture is decline.
Long ago, precious porcelain, which is said to have become a substitute for land when the tea ceremony culture flourished in the Muromachi period.
It is a culture born out of the delicate aesthetic sense of the Japanese, where a broken tea bowl is not only repaired by gluing it together with lacquer, but the crack is also valued as a design pattern.
Lacquer is a living thing. The process will also vary depending on the temperature and humidity at the time, the condition of the equipment and any damage. And the most I have learnt that, most interestingly, the state of mind at the time also has an effect.KINTSUGI is not just about repairing broken objects. I felt that they also played a role in nurturing the heart to appreciate things and to inherit the stories left on the object. Although we live in an age that often demands speed and convenience, lacquer takes time to harden and to become more robust through multiple layers. And the bowl that comes to new life will also begin to mark the passage of time in our daily lives.
Nowadays, the world often focuses on the glittering beauty of KINTSUGI's appearance, but the spirit of "wabi-sabi", the Japanese aesthetic, is alive in this process.
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