"Joinery" as a place name in Japanese?


I've been working on the incorporation of a community center LGBTQIA+ people
and allies to hang out and feel safe.

I learned "kin tsugi" means golden joinery after I woke up with the memory of
a door that had 金継ぎ in gold on it. I thought I should give it this name.

Does it sound natural if I used 金継ぎ as the name of a community center for
LGBTQIA people? I was reading about kin tsugi, and thought that my life and
that of my friends are much as these broken pots. We do not hide our scars but
instead, we own them as a part of who and what we are.




Native speaker here, but I'm not sure how I can help you...

  * The character 継 by itself does **not** mean "joinery" at least in Japanese. But this kanji does mean "to join" (as well as "to succeed/inherit") in certain compound words. (eg, 骨継ぎ is an uncommon word meaning "repairing bone fractures")
  * 継 is **not** a well-known place name like 富士 or 東京. Apparently there is a district name called [継（つぎ tsugi） in Hyogo prefecture](https://goo.gl/maps/nZATyH8Mkn12), but this is recognized only by local people there.
  * You can name a fictional place in whatever way you like, but I doubt people can feel the meaning of "joinery" or any other job names, at least only by this character.
  * Yes there is a **rare** word 金継ぎ (きんつぎ kin-tsugi), [the art of repairing broken china/pottery](http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2136989780569618901). Apparently, this has nothing to do with carpentry or wood crafting. I didn't know the meaning of 金継ぎ after living in Japan for more than 30 years. I'm not particularly good at traditional crafting, though.
  * If you mean [this art of woodworking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodworking_joints) by "joinery", the corresponding Japanese word is 指物（さしもの sashi-mono), but it's a rare word, too.

If this still doesn't help you, please tell us in detail what you really need.

**EDIT** :

Now that I think I understand the intention of the OP, here are my thoughts.

  * If you are thinking of doing a wordplay on 金継(ぎ), please note that `XYZ + 継` is not _productive_ in Japanese any more, partly because 金継ぎ itself is a rare word. That is, you cannot combine some arbitrary noun with 継 and produce a new noun meaning "XYZ joinery", even though 継 itself sometimes means "to join." (If you did, however, some people might take it as "successor of XYZ" because of the primary meaning of 継)
  * To my Japanese ears, a community center named _Kin-tsugi_ may be, for example, like a barbershop named _Blacksmith_. But you might not need to worry about this too much--your community doesn't seem to speak Japanese, after all :)




Native speaker here, but I'm not sure how I can help you...

  * The character 継 by itself does **not** mean "joinery" at least in Japanese. But this kanji does mean "to join" (as well as "to succeed/inherit") in certain compound words. (eg, 骨継ぎ is an uncommon word meaning "repairing bone fractures")
  * 継 is **not** a well-known place name like 富士 or 東京. Apparently there is a district name called [継（つぎ tsugi） in Hyogo prefecture](https://goo.gl/maps/nZATyH8Mkn12), but this is recognized only by local people there.
  * You can name a fictional place in whatever way you like, but I doubt people can feel the meaning of "joinery" or any other job names, at least only by this character.
  * Yes there is a **rare** word 金継ぎ (きんつぎ kin-tsugi), [the art of repairing broken china/pottery](http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2136989780569618901). Apparently, this has nothing to do with carpentry or wood crafting. I didn't know the meaning of 金継ぎ after living in Japan for more than 30 years. I'm not particularly good at traditional crafting, though.
  * If you mean [this art of woodworking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodworking_joints) by "joinery", the corresponding Japanese word is 指物（さしもの sashi-mono), but it's a rare word, too.

If this still doesn't help you, please tell us in detail what you really need.

**EDIT** :

Now that I think I understand the intention of the OP, here are my thoughts.

  * If you are thinking of doing a wordplay on 金継(ぎ), please note that `XYZ + 継` is not _productive_ in Japanese any more, partly because 金継ぎ itself is a rare word. That is, you cannot combine some arbitrary noun with 継 and produce a new noun meaning "XYZ joinery", even though 継 itself sometimes means "to join." (If you did, however, some people might take it as "successor of XYZ" because of the primary meaning of 継)
  * To my Japanese ears, a community center named _Kin-tsugi_ may be, for example, like a barbershop named _Blacksmith_. But you might not need to worry about this too much--your community doesn't seem to speak Japanese, after all :)

