金きん繕つくろい

noun

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.

• 祖そ母ぼは割われた茶ちゃ碗わんを金きん繕つくろいで直なおしてもらった。

  My grandmother had her broken tea bowl repaired with kintsukuroi.

• 金きん繕つくろいは、傷きずを隠かくすのではなく、むしろ美うつくしさとして見みせる技ぎ法ほうだ。

  Kintsukuroi is a technique that shows the cracks as beauty rather than hiding them.