kintsukuroi

Questions

What does kintsukuroi mean?

The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold or similar material, highlighting the cracks instead of disguising them.

Where does kintsukuroi come from?

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 金繕い (kintsukuroi, literally “golden repair”).

How to pronounce kintsukuroi

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