The origins of cloisonne goes back to the Egyptian age, cloisonne with the Golden mask of Tutan-khamen.

Cloisonne has reached us through the silk road between the West and the Orient. After this period of foreign influence had ended, Japanese cloisonne began to start its own unique path of development.

Cloisonne is produced by baking vitreous enamels of various colors on ground of metal, such as silver, copper or ceramic and glass. It is called "Enamels" in the West, however, Japanese word for cloisonne is "Shippo" which treated with Buddhism words and the literal meaning of which is "a ceramic work that is as beautiful as with seven types of precious treasures".

When many splendid artisans of Shippo emerged at the beginning of Meiji era, about 100 years ago, their works displayed at World Expo at Paris and exported to Europe and The United States. Owing to take fancy to them by Foreign Art Collectors, unfortunately for Japanese, most of masterpieces of Meiji Shippo have been collected by Foreign Art Collectors.

Today, large number of Japanese are fond of Shippo. Therefore, Shippo artists are managing to express their artistic expression in pursuit of variety type of Shippo, and many amateurs are loving to make Shippo as their hobby.

We can see great traditional Shippo at The Exhibition of Japanese Traditional Art Crafts or many other exhibitions for contemporary Shippo. Consequently, we can see from Meiji Shippo to contemporary ones at several museums in Japan.

My cloisonne works are always searching for the traditional technique with modern interpretation and I would like to present my outcome to all who love enamelling arts.

Especially, I love flowers and most of my motifs for my works depict my image of flowers fitting with technique of Japanese cloisonne (Yusen-shippo).