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 ...

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On a recent day, a non-Japanese citizen was using a brush to dust cracks in a bowl with gold in an indirectly lit space with a warm ambience on the second floor of a building in Tokyo. Matias Canosa, ...

For centuries in Japan, when precious tea bowls break, the families of tea masters will often keep the broken bowls for generations and later have them mended by artisans who use a lavish technique ...

Kintsugi, the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery, is not only giving damaged plates and bowls another life, but teaching everyday Australians about the beauty in broken things. In ...

At midnight the night before I left for Japan to learn kintsugi, the ancient art of repairing broken pottery, my parents’ kitchen cabinet came crashing to the ground. My dog and I slept through the ...

In today’s world, people often try to hide their flaws and aim for perfection. However, the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi offers a different and inspiring way to look at life. Kintsugi, which means ...