Japanese Art Of Broken Things

The japanese art of embracing broken and flawed things you often hear people saying we should see a glass of water half full than half empty.

Japanese art of broken things. 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 a method similar to the maki e technique. As a philosophy it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object rather than something. When a pot breaks instead of throwing it away japanese craftsmen repair it with gold lacquer and understand that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken. Yet there is an alternative a japanese practice that highlights and enhances the breaks thus.

When a bowl teapot or precious vase falls and breaks into a thousand pieces we throw them away angrily and regretfully. This artwork is somewhat based on the positive mindset of japanese people who consider breakage and repair as an object s history rather than keeping it behind the veil. But the japanese art encourages us to the see potential for beauty in reconstructing the broken pieces. The japanese art of kintsugi teaches that broken objects are not something to hide but to display with pride.

The word kintsugi literally means golden joinery.