Kintsugi

Hello there! How are you doing? I am doing well, and I am excited to introduce one of 　the Japanese traditional techniques called Kitsugi.

I guess many of you wonder what Kintsugi is. Well, it’s the techniques to fix broken pottery. I started learning it to fix my broken porcelain from the earthquake last year.

A couple of days ago, I finished my first work of it! It took more than six months for me to finish it, but I am very happy with the result.

 

Last year an earthquake broke my favorite Dresden piece painted by Alfredo Toledano who was my Dresden teacher. I bought his hand-painted piece more than eight years ago in Arizona, USA from my other teacher San Do.

When I looked at the broken piece, I was very shocked. That’s because Alfredo had passed away, and it’s impossible for me to buy his new piece again. I felt very sorry that his piece was broken.  Now, I am very happy that I could fix it.

 

 

 

The other piece is a lid from my mother in-law’s favorite tea pot. I needed a practice piece, and she asked me to fix it. I haven’t shown the piece to her yet, but I am sure she will love this.

 

 

What do you think about Kintsugi? Does it look like Frankenstein in pottery? You may think the way, but I think Kintsugi is not only to glue broken pieces, but also to create a new art piece from the broken pieces. I am totally involved in the techniques now. I just started learning it. So, I don’t have so many pieces that I can show you. You will see more and more on my blog from now on. I am looking forward to showing how broken pieces will turn into different art with the Kintsugi techniques.

You can read bout Kintsugi more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi

Thank you for visiting my blog! See you around again!!

 

-Yumi