KINTSUGIBONNIE KEMSKE Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with a precious metal, usually gold, silver or platinum. The technique celebrates the history of the object and, rather than disguising a repair, highlights it and makes it beautiful Table of Contents Prologue 1. Cracks made whole in a golden repair and Nekowaride 2. Beautiful joins and kintsugi in Arizona 3. Four historic elements and a famous temper 4.