#kintsukuroi

[gobs-stuff]

kintsukuroi, "to repair with gold"; understanding the piece is more beautiful for having been broken

a personal piece i used my body as reference 😵‍💫

[claypigeonpottery]

I decided to fully break my four cracked pieces and kintsugi them

[culturevulturette]

We are all works of kintsukuroi.

[nightlyginkgo]

Simple light study— oc

[fabledanarchy2]

Hold that thought. I’m glueing myself back together with gold

[peterokii]

[daintyus]

'Kintsukuroi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with gold or silver. The idea is that breakage and repair are part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.

[shadowpuppetteer]

Gargoyle version of Inuyasha or "Ishiyasha" (stone forest spirit) For gargoyle versions of the rest of the cast, check out the post here. Here's a full list of things I used as inspiration for these gargoyle designs. Because gargoyles themselves came from the myth of Gargouille, a French river dragon slain by a saint and whose decapitated head was then used as a roof gutter, I used Chi When as one of my inspirations.

Chi When is one of the nine children of the Chinese dragon king and was a dragon fish hybrid used as a roof decoration and is said to control rain.

The Japanese Shachihoko (or Shachi) is similar, a being with the head of a dragon and the body of a carp being perched on top of roofs that controls rain.

Another being I used as inspiration for these designs was the Nio, stone guardians of Buddhist temples. Especially with their costume designs.

And for Miroku's cursed hand/scars, I thought kintsukuroi was a cool idea. Kintsukuroi is the process of repairing broken pottery with gold filling, making something that was broken more beautiful. It's not a perfect one to one comparison and I am not an expert or at all from the Japanese culture, but it was fun to research and putting together a few similar archetypes to create some fanart. Again, letting my autism show through in this one 😆