Portrait of Rio Hashimoto, Japanese urushi lacquer and kintsugi artist

Works by Rio Hashimoto

Urushi Lacquer Artist Coating Margin into Value

Based in Kyoto, Japan

Based in Kyoto, she works across urushi sculpture, video, and kintsugi, holding beauty and discomfort in tension to examine the boundaries of touch, taboo, and form. M.F.A. in Urushi Lacquering, Kyoto City University of Arts, 2025.

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Kintsugi plate in Ko-Imari sometsuke porcelain, rejoined with natural urushi, one 24K gold seam falling from the rim across the painted night sky, front view.
Kintsugi plate in Ko-Imari porcelain at a low angle, rejoined with natural urushi, the 24K gold seam running from the rim through the urushi-e sky and stars.

24K Gold Kintsugi Ko-Imari Plate | A Window onto Night

CHF 624.00

Kintsugi Arita matcha bowl seen from the front, gold seams crossing a pastel rose-to-blue glaze — a quiet beauty in porcelain.
Close within the bowl, roiro-finished gold catches light along a kintsugi seam, hinting at the patina of time in urushi.

24K Gold Kintsugi Arita Matcha Bowl | Pastel Dusk Lines

CHF 658.00

Kintsugi sake cup in lapis-blue Ko-Imari porcelain, rejoined with natural urushi, 24K gold seams framing the front, front view. Collected.
Kintsugi sake cup in lapis-blue Ko-Imari porcelain, rejoined with natural urushi, 24K gold seams branching across the white well, interior close-up 1.

24K Gold Kintsugi Ko-Imari Sake Cup | The Lapis Passage

CHF 658.00

Kintsugi sake cup in Kyoto ware tenmoku glaze, rejoined with natural urushi, one 24K gold seam dividing from the rim and meeting above the foot. Collected.
Kintsugi sake cup interior in Kyoto ware tenmoku glaze, rejoined with natural urushi, three 24K gold lines converging on a broad gold crescent along the rim.

24K Gold Kintsugi Kyoto Sake Cup | Tenmoku Convergence

CHF 709.00

Kintsugi matcha bowl in Karatsu stoneware, white glaze over black, rejoined with natural urushi, a 24K gold field and root-like seams. Collected.
Kintsugi matcha bowl in Karatsu stoneware, rejoined with natural urushi, 24K gold lines descending from the rim and knotting above the well, interior close-up.

24K Gold Kintsugi Karatsu Matcha Bowl | Ash, Iron and Roots

CHF 2,108.00

Kintsugi sake cup in Ko-Imari sometsuke porcelain with painted round windows, restored with natural urushi and 24K gold, front view. Collected.
Kintsugi sake cup interior where three natural urushi and 24K gold lines meet at the center of the white well of the Ko-Imari porcelain.

24K Gold Kintsugi Ko-Imari Sake Cup | Between the Windows

CHF 557.00

Arita ware bowl in matte white porcelain with pastel swirl panels, its break rejoined with natural urushi, 24K gold on the face and moss-green urushi beneath. Collected.
24K Gold Kintsugi Arita Bowl | Between White and Swirl

24K Gold Kintsugi Arita Bowl | Between White and Swirl

CHF 692.00

Kintsugi bowl with lid in Arita sometsuke porcelain, natural urushi and 24K gold lines descending the ringed lid, front view. Collected.
Kintsugi bowl lid in Arita porcelain seen alone, natural urushi and 24K gold lines branching from the ring knob across the blue rings toward the edge.

24K Gold Kintsugi Arita Lidded Bowl | One Seam, Two Faces

CHF 591.00

Kintsugi plate in Ko-Imari sometsuke porcelain with line-drawn camellias, restored with natural urushi and 24K gold, front view. Collected.
Kintsugi plate close-up in Ko-Imari porcelain, the natural urushi and 24K gold seam crossing the pine-and-plum roundel beside a gold-finished rim chip.

24K Gold Kintsugi Ko-Imari Plate | A Branch Among Camellias

CHF 624.00

Kyoto ware tokkuri restored with vermilion iro-urushitsugi kintsugi and a 24K gold maki-e droplet, front view. Collected.
Close-up of vermilion kintsugi, capturing the tactile beauty of visible resilience.

Adorned Kintsugi Kyoto Ware Tokkuri | Gold Maki-e Droplet

CHF 498.00

Edo-period Ko-Imari sake cup with hand-painted karakusa vines in sometsuke blue, restored with draped 24K gold kintsugi arcs in natural urushi. Collected.
Interior of a Ko-Imari sake cup, branching 24K gold kintsugi lines crossing the plain white well toward a single gold drop near the center.

24K Gold Kintsugi Ko-Imari Sake Cup | Garland for the Vines

CHF 607.00

Kyoto ware white porcelain rice bowl with cobalt lattice rim and red accent lines, restored with a branching 24K gold kintsugi seam in natural urushi. Collected.
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24K Gold Kintsugi Kyoto Rice Bowl | A Branch Meets Cobalt

CHF 532.00

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