The technique is the ancient art of Japanese Kintsugi ... which translates more or less as ‘joining with gold’, broken pottery is repaired with a seam of lacquer and precious metal.

Today, we're in Japan, about seven thousand years ago, with an ancient pot made in a tradition that goes back almost ten thousand years before that. 'The earliest dates we've got for pottery are ...

Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese art form that offers a profound metaphor for understanding human relationships. Translating to “golden repair,” Kintsugi involves repairing broken pottery with ...

Studies of ancient Jomon sites in separate areas of Japan show that lifestyles of the ... uniformly similar across the country. The Jomon Pottery Culture Period flourished from around 14500 ...

(Top) A pottery vessel excavated from the Tatesaki ... Discovery of the Jomon era maize weevils in Hokkaido, Japan and its mean. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 23, pp.

Japan’s ancient art of celebrating broken pottery is rooted in an eastern philosophy of life that finds beauty in imperfection. Many believe it can help us accept our flaws and foster a sense of ...

14500 B.C.-1000 B.C.) people who occupied Japan’s main islands and are known for their distinctive pottery culture ... to help fill in the gap between ancient humans and later inhabitants ...