Savoir faire
From aesthetic, technical and artistic viewpoints, the restoration of ceramics with lacquer (called kintsugi), which has been practiced in Japan for many centuries and which has been particularly cultivated since the sixteenth century, is a highly distinctive and extremely fascinating field of Japanese art.
As collective terms for all kinds of objects that have been restored with lacquer, the Japanese language contains the two words urushitsugi (“to patch with lacquer”) and ursuhitsukuroi (“to repair with lacquer ”), both of which have been in the language since the sixteenth century, as well as the word urushinaoshi, which denotes “lacquer repair”.
A video document by Swiss designer / typographer / filmmaker, Niko Kitsakis about the work of hanging scroll making artist Hideyuki Kamon.
2012-2013, 15 minutes. Japanese with english subtitles.
A video document by Renata Whitaker Rogé about the edible art of sweets made for the Japanese Tea Ceremony, the festivals, the change of seasons or personal moods.
2016, 25 minutes. Japanese & portuguese with english subtitles.
Le fouet à thé ou chasen (茶筅) sert à agiter le matcha (poudre de thé vert) en le mélangeant dans l’eau chaude d’un bol pour obtenir une fine mousse.