Kintsugi 金継ぎ is known as the Japanese art of putting broken things back together, like broken pottery, using materials mixed ...

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 ...

Launched in 2014, PhotoSparks is a weekly feature from YourStory, with photographs that celebrate the spirit of creativity and innovation. In the earlier 925 posts, we featured an art festival, ...

“Blue Moon,” shown here in a provided photo, is one of Naoko Fukumaru’s kintsugi artworks, based on a Persian earthenware plate from the 10th-12th century CE. Kintsugi is the 500-year-old Japanese art ...

A potter's paradise: the realm of ceramics in modern Japan / Meghen Jones -- Tradition, modernity, and national identity: celadon production at the Makuzu ceramic workshop, 1870-1916 / Clare Pollard - ...

On the inside of the bowl, where the viewer looks down at the lotus leaves and blossoms from above the pond, Yohei III evoked dewdrops with small dollops of porcelain that rise above the glazed blue ...

Photo of Kamoda at home in Mashiko from 1974 with pots featuring his trademark red-green-white swirls set out before him, on p195 of Aoki Hiroshi, ed., Kamoda Shōji (Inshōsha, 2004). MINNEAPOLIS — ...

Out of all of Japanese pottery master Kondo Takahiro’s works, the ones that came after the largest earthquake in his country’s history feel particularly resonant. As the disaster became known, 3/11 ...

Yūzū Nenbutsu Engi (Origins of the Yuzu Nenbutsu Sect) 融通念仏縁起 (detail), Handscroll, Kamakura or period, 14th century, Japan, Ink, color, and gold on paper, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. A recently acquired work, "Fuka" by Japanese ceramic ...

It is often said that Japanese traditional crafts are in danger of extinction, but there are also proactive movements to support them, such as the activities of JapanCraft21. The importance for the ...

Japan has a long and colorful history of dining communally outside, with a culture of intricately painted boxes specifically made for the enjoyment of food in the fresh air with friends and family.