Then in 2015, by then a food stylist in New York, Kirshner returned—this time to a “magical mountain town” called Yamanaka Onsen in the Ishikawa Prefecture, where she took on a three-month ...

Kintsugi is a technique used to repair objects using lacquer and gold. In the mountain village of Yamanaka Onsen, Ishikawa Prefecture, a kintsugi workshop is inundated with repair requests from ...