金缮——碎了的陶瓷用漆粘合，接缝敷上金粉：不藏伤，把伤口修成金线。 Golden joinery — broken ceramics mended with lacquer and dusted gold, the crack not hidden but made a seam of light.
Golden joinery — broken ceramics mended with lacquer and dusted gold, the crack not hidden but made a seam of light. 金缮——碎了的陶瓷用漆粘合，接缝敷上金粉：不藏伤，把伤口修成金线。
词源etymology
金（きん，金）＋ 継ぎ（つぎ，接续）——「以金相接」。也作金繕い（kintsukuroi，金缮）。 汉字直译过来就是中文匠行里说的「金缮」。
金 kin (gold) + 継ぎ tsugi (joining) — “joining with gold.” Also 金繕い kintsukuroi, “golden mending.” The Chinese craft term 金缮 is its character-for-character kin.
背景the story
《大辞泉》在录：碎裂缺损的陶瓷以漆黏合，接缝敷金、银或白金粉—— 行话里最好的一笔是，修出来的缝不叫伤，叫**「景色」**。
工艺一般认为兴于室町时代，与茶道一同长大。流传最广的起源故事是足利义政的茶碗： 碎碗送去中国修理，回来时钉着难看的锔钉，将军不悦，日本匠人于是发明了金缮—— 连讲这个故事的行内文章都会补一句：**查无实证，但人人爱讲。**传说也是器物的一道景色。
它常被当作侘寂的实践课：侘寂是看得起残缺的眼光，金缮是把这眼光做成手艺—— 不遮伤、不返新，让裂纹领工资。
In the Daijisen: broken or chipped ceramics bonded with lacquer, the seams dressed in powdered gold, silver or platinum — and the trade’s best touch is what the mended line is called: not a scar but a keshiki, a “landscape.”
The craft is generally dated to the Muromachi period, growing up alongside the tea ceremony. The most-told origin story is Ashikaga Yoshimasa’s tea bowl — sent broken to China, returned with ugly metal staples, the displeased shogun’s craftsmen inventing golden repair instead. Even the trade articles telling it add the honest line: no evidence it happened, and everyone tells it anyway. A legend is part of a vessel’s scenery too.
It is often taught as wabi-sabi’s practicum: wabi-sabi is the eye that honors the imperfect; kintsugi puts that eye on the payroll — no hiding the break, no faking the new, the crack earning its keep.
中文里的邻居neighbors in chinese
「金缮」这个译名已在中文匠圈通行，字面全等。真正的邻居是老话「锔碗」—— 锔钉修补是中国自己的旧手艺，故事里被将军嫌弃的正是它。 锔碗求的是接着用，金缮求的是看得见的修复：一个把伤当羞，一个把伤当账。 另有一句现成的中国话与它心意相通：「不如怜取眼前人」的反面——碎过的，怜取碎过处。
金缮 is the standard Chinese rendering, character-perfect. The true neighbor is the old craft of 锔碗 — mending bowls with metal staples, China’s own trade, and the very repair the shogun of the legend disliked. Staple-mending wants the bowl usable again; kintsugi wants the repair visible: one treats the break as shame, the other as a ledger entry.
The museum label said kintsugi; the bowl said three hundred years and one bad afternoon. 自拟例句 our own example, not a quotation Their marriage after the affair was pure kintsugi — mended in plain sight, the seam part of the story. 自拟例句 our own example, not a quotation 日语真词（大辞泉在录），世界通行的工艺词。 中文写「金缮」即可； 英文 kintsugi 可不斜体。当心它在励志文里被用软——最好的用法还是先让它当回手艺， 隐喻自己会跟上来。
A real Japanese word (in the Daijisen), now a worldwide craft term. In Chinese, write 金缮; in English, kintsugi needs no italics. Beware its self-help softening — use it first as the craft it is, and the metaphor will follow on its own.