Kintsugi

Kintsugi, means golden joinery, is Japanese traditional art of repairing broken pottery. Kintsugi workman mends the broken parts of pottery with Japanese lacquer, covers the lacquered parts with powder of gold or silver most of time. With this mending we can the use once damaged pottery, and the lacqered cracks are considered the nice design, not the damage. In June I have chiped the small pottery bowl which had formerly belonged to my grandparents, and we have used very often on our supper table. So I decided to ask the Kintsugi craftsman to repair it. Recently I got the repaired bowl. It was nicely mended and I'm glad to have it. For this is one of our casual dishes I didn't want it look showy, asked to use just lacquer instead of gold so you might not notice this was once broken. Doesn't it look nice? The damaged bowl (in June). Now repaired. The side.

The firework

Every summer, for many years, we have had big fireworks at waterfront of Yokohama. It has cancelled twice because of the Covid, this summer they finally held it - tonight. I was at home, having supper then. But the sound of the fireworks from far reminded me of it, I went out to the nearby road from where I could see the beautiful fireworks - just the upper part of them over the hill and some tall buildings but beautiful enough, and I enjoyed their sound very much. Here is the link to the video. The fireworks start at 41:53.I hope it works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZC5ABl1dbo