Black Powder & Bengala Powder

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Black Powder & Bengala Powder

This coloring pigment set features two essential colors for the intermediate coating and finishing stages. By kneading these into raw urushi, you can create kuro-urushi and bengala-urushi.

Natural Pigments for a Colorful Foundation

Used in traditional kintsugi, these fine powder pigments are primarily composed of iron oxide. When mixed with raw urushi, they transform into colored urushi—a deep black or a reddish-brown—serving as a base that beautifully enhances the brilliance of gold and silver.

Two Colors to Expand Your Expression

Use bengala for an elegant, warm gold finish, and black for a cool, modern silver finish. Choosing the base color to match your finishing powder not only makes the colors more vivid but also helps you easily identify any missed spots while painting.

Uses in Kintsugi

These are used during the "intermediate coating" stage and when applying the "decorative urushi" just before sprinkling gold or silver powder. By adding a small amount of powder to raw urushi and kneading it, then applying it thinly and carefully with a brush, you can create a strong and beautiful layer of color.

What is Kintsugi?

Kintsugi—— a traditional Japanese restoration technique passed down for over 500 years. Broken vessels are carefully joined with urushi, a natural lacquer, and finished with gold. Rather than hiding the seams, kintsugi highlights them, giving the piece renewed life through its golden lines.

At the heart of this practice lies wabi-sabi, a Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty in the imperfect and the transient. Rather than seeing breakage as a flaw, it is regarded as a unique chapter in the vessel’s story. Kintsugi philosophy offers a quiet sense of healing in our modern lives.

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Our Philosophy

Inheriting memories, inheriting the world.

In Tokyo, where artisan craftsmanship has thrived since the Edo period, we mend broken vessels with gold to create new beauty.

ANYTUGI is dedicated to sharing the ancient Japanese art of kintsugi and the spirit of wabi-sabi with the world. Broken objects are reborn through your own hands. Bring those quiet moments into your everyday life.

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Sharing Kintsugi with the World

We share kintsugi work processes and techniques primarily on Instagram. As of 2026, our total followers have surpassed 10,000. Our joy comes from inspiring people who've never heard of kintsugi to think, "I want to try this."

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Kintsugi Repair Services

In an era where discarding broken items has become the norm, we believe that well-used vessels hold their owner's time and memories. Kintsugi is a method of restoration that honors these traces. While accepting repair requests from around the world, we convey the value of cherishing and using things for a long time.

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Hosting Workshops

Kintsugi is both a technique and a culture that shapes how we see and value things. In our workshops, participants experience the practice hands-on while exploring the history of kintsugi and the uniquely Japanese sensibility of "wabi-sabi" that underlies it.

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