Kunio nakamura biography sample

by Steve Jensen | 4-minute read

The earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, off the cost of Japan left behind a broken nation. 15,899 people died.

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6,157 people were injured. 2,219 went missing. Over 120,000 buildings were flattened and another 280,000 partially collapsed. The event’s price tag came to over $235 billion, making it the single most costly natural disaster in history.

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Beyond the physical and financial devastation was the frightening reality of radioactive particles released into the air and water for miles around the Fukushima power plant. The nation was broken.

And brokenhearted.

The numbers, as with any natural disaster, could not begin to describe the stories of loss experienced by individuals and families.

But it was into the midst of those stories that an artist named Kunio Nakamura traveled with his simple gift of healing. His gift was kintsugi, the ancient Japanese art of filling cracked ceramic vessels with a mixture of lacquer and precious