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kintsugi

金継ぎkin-TSOO-gee[kʲint͡sɨɡʲi]

mending broken pottery with gold, so the crack stays visible

Closest in English: golden-repair, mending, repair. None of them covers it.

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The story

Kin is gold and tsugi is joining: a cracked tea bowl is mended with urushi lacquer dusted with gold, so the break stays visible and becomes part of the bowl. Japanese craftsmen have done it for centuries. In English it goes by golden repair.

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  1. Which language is it from?Japanese
  2. What does it literally say?Gold-joining
  3. Where would you hear it?A cracked tea bowl and a pot of lacquer
  4. What does it mean?Fixing broken pottery with gold seams

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