Kintsugi Craftsman Traveling To Kumamoto To Repair Earthquake-Damaged Family Heirlooms

[Randy McCall]

Kunio Nakamura has been putting his kintsugi skills to use helping others for years. To this day, he repairs pieces damaged in the 2011 earthquake that devastated Japan’s Tohoku region.
 
Following last week’s Kumamoto earthquakes, Nakamura has been sending out tweets reminding people not to hastily toss out their cracked and broken pottery. Instead, he encourages them to tape the smaller pieces to the larger ones and store the bundle in a plastic bag. Once recovery operations settle down, Nakamura plans to travel to homes in Kumamoto and offer his services, free of charge, to those with broken heirloom ceramics.
 
Full story: http://en.rocketnews24.com/2016/04/22/volunteer-craftsman-traveling-to-kumamoto-to-repair-earthquake-damaged-family-heirloom-ceramics/

 

[obiwanknabbe]

Honor... Right there.. My respect is freely given to this gentleman. 

 

Kurt

[Toryu2020]

Does anyone know of a Kintsugi artist in Amerique?

[Henry Wilson]

DIY. It is s lot fun.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UWa_MyLpZfQ

[Baka Gaijin]

Here ya go:

 

http://www.mejiro-Japan.com/en/product/kintsugi-repair-kit

 

Pip Pip

[Stephen]

Readers Digest version lol

 

[Toryu2020]

not I'm afraid a handy guy,

might try this but most likely would muck it up...

[Brian]

I have the gold powder, and some assorted other supplies. May give this a try on old and broken sake cups.

[Bugyotsuji]

Facinating to watch, but two weeks to complete! Eek, eek! Aaaarrrrgggghhhhh.....