SONOMA, Calif. (KGO) -- In her Sonoma home, artist Maki Aizawa holds a broken plate. "When something breaks, we tend to throw it away," she said. "But we don't have to throw it away and don't have to ...

I recently took a course in kintsugi, the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery and highlighting the cracks with gold. The mended piece ends up being more beautiful and more valuable than ...

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In 2023 I visited Japan where there’s an art form known as Kintsugi, which means “to join with gold.” When a ceramic bowl or treasured piece breaks, it isn’t thrown away. Instead, it’s carefully ...

The Japanese concept of Kintsugi is, at a deep level, similar to our idea of not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good—but it goes a little further. Kintsugi is the art of repairing broken ...

Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese art of repairing ceramics with lacquer and gold dust. The idea is to highlight the imperfections of a piece and celebrate its new form, rather than hide its chips ...

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the breakage with gold or other precious metals. I argue that we can learn a lot about our approach to emotional health from this ...