Um, so that's so powerful.

powerful.It is, uh, uh, kintsugi is a Japanese term.

Uh, kin is gold and tsugi means to mend.

And, uh, it, it flows out of this venerable, uh, tradition of tea, uh, tea ceremony of Sen no Rikyū in particular, who, um, in sixteenth century Japan, during a, uh, feudal war time, uh, established this, uh, way, path of, uh, peacemaking through, uh, the very heightened, uh, ritual of, of tea, serving tea, uh, to the very powerful.

And out of that aesthetic came out this notion that something that has been broken, something that is rusting away or worn, uh, thin are more beautiful because they are, uh, have gone through this journey.

And, uh, and so when, uh, teaware inevitably breaks in a earthquake-prone co- ne- uh, Japan, um, the family of tea masters will often keep the fragments for several generations, uh, before they give it to a Japan lacquer master.

And Japan lacquer is, uh, made from, uh, urushi, uh, which is from poison sumac.

What about you, Mako?