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.
祖母は割れた茶碗を金繕いで直してもらった。
My grandmother had her broken tea bowl repaired with kintsukuroi.
金繕
Kintsukuroi is a technique that shows the cracks as beauty rather than hiding them.
金継ぎ is a more common term for the same art of repairing pottery with gold lacquer. 金繕い is a less frequent synonym, sometimes emphasizing the mending aspect.
Compound of 金 (kin, 'gold') and 繕い (tsukuroi, 'mending, repair'). The reading きんづくろい arises from rendaku voicing of つくろい.