kintsukuroi; repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer
A traditional Japanese art of mending broken pottery using lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or other precious metals. The technique highlights the cracks rather than hiding them, often associated with the aesthetic philosophy of embracing flaws. The reading きんづくろい is a common voiced variant.
My grandmother had her broken tea bowl repaired with kintsukuroi.
Kintsukuroi is a technique that shows the cracks as beauty rather than hiding them.