What I Learned Holding the Brush Myself In Peace, I wrote about a kintsugi bowl. It was in a Kyoto workshop, years ago. A craftsman took it down from the shelf, turned it in his hands, and showed me the gold seam running along an old crack. He said the bowl had taken many tries to find its form. I built a whole chapter around that moment. What I didn't mention is that I had never done it myself. This spring I finally sat down at a workbench in Kyoto with a broken plate in fro