Kintsugi: Broken is Beautiful

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquered gold, creating beautiful cracks in bowls, cups or vases. In this video, I explore the history of Kintsugi, the process of breaking and repairing and the philosophy behind the art.

#japan #japanese #crafts

[helspelargonium]

Hi, I am a high school pottery teacher and recently used this video to console my 14-year olds when some of their unfired pieces cracked. They were enthralled by the way you presented the concept and we spoke about it for half an hour! Thank you! They asked me what music you have used in the background as they'd love to do pottery to that soundtrack. Thank you for a beautiful video!

[mycustompaintedlife]

“More Beautiful For Having Been Broken”
I absolutely love this, as I’ve held a core belief, my ENTIRE life, that I was broken, these was something inherently wrong with me, that no matter how I tried to do better, my broken pieces fell apart again.

[rosemarshall]

This is death and rebirth. This is time. This is so japanese spirit. This is beautiful.

[Unraveled]

Man, this is beautiful. I love your videos, never stop making them, please.

[cissikiki]

Thanks for your historical information beautiful art 🤩👏🌟

[Lady_Indigo]

I'm glad I don't feel the need to break anything to make them again, I'm already my own kintsugi piece thanks to life. Even if it's invisible

[mellisamaragh]

This is an amazing video, the way you word yourself is so beautiful and captivating!

[Scindere]

Youre a true storyteller
Great work !

[Nepartinis]

Beautiful naration, backround music and interesting subject❤

[lostcoastcannabis]

Thank you for this informative and well read video

[AprendeMovimiento]

Byzantine Catholic art unites eastern and western notions of beauty.

[EtherealReality]

I need to do this. I have a set of 3 antique Japanese plates, and my child shattered one of them.

[tyson]

From the video description "Kintsugi is the Japanese art of deliberately breaking and then repairing with gold laquer, creating beautiful cracks in bowls, cups or vases." In the video you describe westerners who are deliberately breaking pottery for the aesthetic as "missing the point". I think you may want to reword your description.

[AliFigueroa]

May I use a brief excerpt (around 3-5 seconds) of this video for a video speech I'm editing?

[nilvoidzero]

The Westerners' desires, especially people from the USA where convenience is king, to skip to the end to get the results speaks more about their unconscious beliefs in life due to their upbringing in their Western culture. Telling them that this is not the philosophy behind kintsugi would open their minds to a different perspective in life.

[rollinboulder]

perhaps instead they’re obscuring the ugly by putting something immensely beautiful in front of it

[thecarwasherofshangri-la]

Now im very mad at myself for throwing out that plate

[whoisyouranime]

Question: Can you eat food with a kintsugi plate or is that considered inappropriate to the Japanese culture?

[beowulf]

"Japan finds beauty in the weathered, and the dutifully used."

If only that were actually true; one only needs to look at how Japan treats it's struggling young-adults to know how they really feel.

[katieharmon]

Hi Roanoke! I am creating a video and I am looking for stock footage of Kintsugi. Its not easy to come by. Would you be willing to share a couple of your beautiful shots? I would be happy to compensate you. And I can share the video if you'd like to see how it would be used. Please let me know. Beautiful story!