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- Season 12 Stable Fishing Jobs Steer a Community
- Season 12 A Float Artisan & His Muse
- Season 12 Magical Forest: Okinawa's Natural World Heritage Site
- Season 12 Soccer Team Raises Community Spirit
- Season 12 Seeking a Chance to Learn: Students with Overseas Roots
- Season 12 Small Factory Reaches for the Stars
- Season 12 Flying Like an Arrow
- Season 12 Modern Methods Sustain Metalwork Tradition
- Season 12 A World Heritage Town: Past and Future
- Season 12 Hard Rain: A Village Divided
- Season 12 Bonding Through Soba: A Story of Four Grannies
- Season 12 Amashi: Japan's Freediving Fishers
- Season 12 Our New Classmate from Ukraine
- Season 12 Waiting for the God's Crossing
- Season 12 Mailing Letters to the Lost
- Season 12 Kintsugi: Mending Memories with Gold
- Season 12 A Cut Above the Rest
- Season 12 The Final Journey
- Season 12 Life on a Sloping Farm
- Season 12 A House-call Doctor in Fukushima
- Season 12 A Song for a New Fukushima School
- Season 12 Reviving a Fukushima Brewery
- Season 12 Japanese Paper Supports War-torn Ukraine
- Season 12 Egg Wars – Father vs. Son
- Season 12 Countryside Diaries
- Season 12 A Heart-Warming Tokyo Veggie Stand
- Season 12 Sparking a Chain of Kindness
- Season 12 Grandma's Hands Reap Nature's Bounty
- Season 12 Inheriting a Thousand-Year-Old Craft
Hometown Stories - Season 12 Episode 16 Kintsugi: Mending Memories with Gold
0.00 30 minutes Kintsugi is a technique used to repair objects using lacquer and gold. In the mountain village of Yamanaka Onsen, Ishikawa Prefecture, a kintsugi workshop is inundated with repair requests from all over the country. The items include a teacup bought on a honeymoon and a mug used for 40 years. All are imbued with special meaning. For some clients, the golden tracings on the objects hold memories of lost loved ones. We look at the emotional bonds that kintsugi can help to create.
