The Hotel Seiryu Kyoto Kiyomizu invites guests to mend history through a kintsugi workshop
The Hotel Seiryu Kyoto Kiyomizu presents a distinctive alternative to expertise kintsugi, the normal artwork of golden restore.
For a restricted time, a Kyoto-based kintsugi teacher will information guests in creating distinctive equipment utilizing damaged or chipped pottery.
This occasion is designed to assist guests uncover new magnificence within the outdated and expertise the second when one thing damaged is introduced again to life-reflecting the shared spirit between the venue and the artwork of kintsugi.
The occasion is scheduled for twenty eighth and thirtieth October, and once more on 4th and sixth November on the library on the lodge’s second flooring.


What is kintsugi?
Kintsugi is a conventional Japanese method for repairing damaged or chipped ceramics and porcelain utilizing lacquer and gold powder.
Rather than concealing imperfections, the repaired seams themselves change into a hanging type of ornament, including new worth and wonder to objects which may in any other case be discarded.
It helps to know at this level that the constructing presently housing the lodge was previously an elementary college and has been rigorously preserved and reinvented to provide a luxurious expertise to guests from each Japan and overseas.
This revitalised area which blends trendy consolation with cherished reminiscences of its previous as a place of studying, resonates deeply with the spirit of “kintsugi,” which creates new worth whereas retaining the perfect components of the outdated.
In which case, the setting affords the right surroundings to witness the transformation of the outdated into one thing fantastically new.