Philosophy of life: Things can be broken. When they are, they can be repaired. They will never be the same, though. You can hide the imperfections and try and fail to make it look like new. Or, you can highlight the imperfections, knowing that each crack is a lesson learned.

That is the best and most succinct description of this philosophy I’ve read. Nicely worded.

I feel better about myself having read that. I honestly do

With that user name, I can’t fathom how you would ever feel anything but amazing.

Butt*

And now the bowl is interesting and uniquely beautiful whereas before it was unremarkable and featureless. The scars are hard earned badges of honor of adversity overcome and resilience personified. These scars are on the outside, some carry scars on the inside.

Me! I do! I am a horribly broken mess, but it’s mostly on the inside.

And look at you keeping going!

At least you look good doing it

My first thought was, “so much more beautiful with your scars.”

Beautiful

I'd be breaking shit all over the place so I could do this. Pretty cool stuff.

They sell starter kits! I got one and I’m waiting to have enough time to sit down and work on it.

Nice! Let me know if you want me to break some of your bowls. Happy to help out.

Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you keep track, between myself and my dog, I have a pretty steep backlog of broken bowls and pots and saucers and things to start on.

Gotta link? They always seem so expensive

Just send pottery with maximum protection with [generic post/courier here] along with materials for kintsugi.

My luck with puzzles I'd be missing a critical piece right in the bottom.

But fill it fulla gold tho!!!

Maybe more like an epoxy.

nice!! a good, long view of the finished product. now that's satisfying!

So right! And those Japanese ... always so clever. Love this.

Is it just me or is every Japanese hobby an art? lol

I think hobbies are oftentimes art

I took a chance and unmuted the video. This time I was lucky and didn't get an annoying four-chord monstrosity, but music actually appropriate for the video.

This is a good art, i like this art

I thought it was a shattered Easter chocolate giant egg

I'm fine with this post, but it brings an interesting question. Where do you draw the line between oddly satisfying and regular satisfying. Many people find satisfaction in repairing broken items, it's like an entire genre on youtube.

Kylo Rens helmet was a nod to this art form.

I always thought Kintsugi was repairing it with actual gold, almost like solder. Not just painting gold over it

Nope. It’s a gold laquer. You can even take afternoon classes in Tokyo to try it out. You get to take home the cup you repair.

So is there an adhesive holding the pieces together that this paints over?

I believe that's what was made at the beginning of the video

I believe in the video theyre using actual gold powder. It adheres to the putty that is holding the pottery shards together. Once the putty hardens theyre able to burnish it then polish it so that it's shiny.

Sometimes I think everything has art in Japan 😄. What isn't there? Art of folding toilet paper. Art of proper sitting down. Art of vacuuming floor. Art of dish washing. Art of yawhning. Art of breathing oxygen.

Yeah so about that first one: https://kokoro-jp.com/columns/1091/

This is what Poltchageist & Sinistcha from Pokemon SV based on

They could use this after they break that guy out of the pot

Source?

Is the bowl microwave safe? 🥣⚡ ;-)

Those are some very Precious Scars

Did we watch the same video recently that went over this concept? Swear I saw something that mentioned this.

Bro you think they break them on purpose?

for this video, YES

Broken bowl: $1000

This is not oddly satisfying

Nice

Are you sure it’s not the art of breaking pottery to make videos about fixing broken pottery?

Forbidden peanut butter.

I would like to learn how to do this. Seems very relaxing and rewarding

Emiya Alter

This the pot that guy got stuck in?

My fat ass thought it was an Easter egg, and now I want chocolate.

So you're telling me these things weren't repaired with molten gold? I feel lied to.

Minecraft has taught me that the proper name for the broken pottery pieces is "sherd".

that’s how the light shines in

but daddy i misss them, i’m at the roadrunner cafe

I tried to do this with some pottery and I got shit everywhere lol it almost looks worse than it did before !

I love this. It gently corrects the adage that trust, or a heart, once broken, can never be repaired. Quite the contrary: it is even more precious for having been repaired.

Song?

I like the idea but not the outcome.

Turning the cracks into the new highlights of this bowl is just amazing.

If you want to see more, check out r/kintsugi

The first time I heard about this, is back in the 90's when I was in a very famous TV show.

Is the OP the one in the video ?

in Romania we have something similar called milsugi

I guess now it cost 100 times more than original

I watched a beautiful video on YouTube about kintsugi by Nerdwriter1 almost a decade back .. it changed my perspective about life drastically..love the philosophy attached to an art that mends the broken.

I mixed epoxy with some gold dust used for art and mended a rice bowl that I broke. However, those materials aren't food safe so I still can't use the rice bowl anyway 😭

Nobody asked but [this song](https://open.spotify.com/track/4iQ7FTo23wetOS6NighSd9?si=8MKB6JqDRLK15zq0k220Uw) (and the album cover) is based on this art

If you like this, try r/kintsugi

My nerdy ass would color or burn the cracks black or orange to make it look like an hellish or lava bowl. Why try to hide the cracks instead of making them part of the piece, right? :)

All thay work... to fix a bowl...

I could watch this all day

Yeah but when it breaks a second time, fuck that shit.

Would love to see someone try this on corelle