KINTSUGI Definition & Meaning

kintsugi

[ kin-tsoo-gee ]

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noun

Also called �쾱��·�ٲ��·��·��Ǿ� [kin-, tsoo, -koo-roi]. a traditional Japanese pottery repair technique in which lacquer mixed with precious metals, especially gold, is used to fill cracks and replace missing pieces:
A 300-year old vase repaired with kintsugi was on display.

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Origin of kintsugi¹

First recorded in 2005–10; from Japanese: literally “gold repair, gold joinery”

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Humbe, “Kintsugi” Using the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery as a metaphor for a transformative love, 24-year-old experimental pop star Humbe brings a new kind of sensuality to his sound.

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Visitors can also participate in kintsugi workshops, learning how to repair chipped, cracked and broken ceramic and porcelain tableware using 100% natural materials including urushi lacquer and 24K gold powder.

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“Kintsugi” is not necessarily an indictment of L.A. — it’s an indictment of the entertainment industry that I’d found myself rubbing up against.

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You sing about L.A. in a pretty negative way on Death Cab’s “Kintsugi,” which followed your divorce.

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Other Lives makes meaning out of old, cast-off clothes, drawing on the practices and philosophies of Japanese creative techniques like suminagashi dyeing, sachiko embroidery and kintsugi ceramics mending to see the redeeming spirit in an item, to repair the unrepairable.

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