https://www.abodeofyogi.com/abode-journal daily 0.75 2026-08-27 https://www.abodeofyogi.com/abode-journal/the-repair-precedes-the-break monthly 0.5 2026-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679e3faaaf281e412ffa261b/02b0bee9-81e2-4045-bf02-aecbd73c4801/16718A77-BFC7-4B55-B669-815E5AF752F2.jpeg Abode Journal - The Repair Precedes the Break A repaired bowl looks backwards at damage it has survived. A dessert looks forward at damage that is certain. This is the only medium I know where the repair precedes the break. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679e3faaaf281e412ffa261b/f4cc1a5c-9226-4b9c-a7bf-cfba610e75d2/6F3C6948-CD52-4B0B-A696-179AA88C5E8E.jpeg Abode Journal - The Repair Precedes the Break Kintsugi — 金継ぎ, gold joining. Urushi lacquer, dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver or platinum, and the fracture line raised into the most conspicuous feature of the object. The older word for the practice was kintsukuroi, 金繕い, gold mending; the shift toward -tsugi carries the sense of a repair lifted into beauty rather than merely performed. The break is not forgiven. It is promoted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679e3faaaf281e412ffa261b/78e8fa70-ed31-493d-ab48-8432b2760439/2F2FF6AC-1A89-4001-A1A5-A7B3002BF3B1.jpeg Abode Journal - The Repair Precedes the Break Yobitsugi — 呼び継ぎ, literally calling-join. A fragment is called in from a different vessel altogether to fill what is missing: different clay, different glaze, different provenance, sometimes not ceramic at all. Nothing in the method seeks harmony. The object becomes two objects agreeing to be one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679e3faaaf281e412ffa261b/e81117ad-3257-49f9-8f48-21c376788d29/E40200E0-AD69-44E6-845D-EB4AFE9CF130.jpeg Abode Journal - The Repair Precedes the Break Tomotsugi — 共継ぎ, also 共直し, tomonaoshi. The character 共 carries the sense of the same body, of a piece with. In its older use it means restoring a vessel from its own fragments and nothing foreign. In current practice it more often describes a repair whose lacquer is colour-matched to the original surface so that the join is not read as an event at all. It is the only one of the three that asks not to be seen. Set in that order, the three are a gradient of disclosure: declare the break, replace the break with a stranger, or match the break to the body until it stops registering. https://www.abodeofyogi.com/abode-journal/delhi-undisturbed monthly 0.5 2026-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679e3faaaf281e412ffa261b/80aa5c2d-11a9-40b0-9af7-5361bf897984/A0B0320C-933D-4647-A037-16FEC66E881D.jpeg Abode Journal - Delhi, Undisturbed Pots added one at a time, moved for the season, replaced when they died. 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