Crumbled and shattered
Useless and scattered
Passed into Your care
Restored by Your craft
Brokenness becomes beautiful
Gathered now, still dutiful
Gilded cracks renewing
Purposeful once again
Kintsugi (金継ぎ) (Japanese: golden joinery) or Kintsukuroi (金繕い) (Japanese: golden repair) is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.