abstract:(Japanese: golden joinery) or (Japanese: golden repair) is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a lacquer resin sprinkled with powdered gold.Blake Gopnik, "At Freer, Aesthetic Is Simply Smashing", Washington Post, March 3, 2009"Golden Seams: The Japanese Art of Mending Ceramics", Freer Gallery of Art (accessed 3 March 2009) Kintsugi may have originated when shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa sent a damaged Chinese tea bowl back to China for repairs in the late 15th century.