OTA Hiroaki

Ota Hiroaki (1913 – 1991) was born in Nagoya City, Aichi prefecture. He is considered one of the leading cloisonné artists of the Showa Period. Ota Hiroaki is the third generation of an enamelling family, his father, Ota Yoshisaburo, worked during the Meiji period, was also based in Nagoya and won an award for his work at the 1889 Paris Exposition.Ota Hiroaki participated frequently in the Nitten exhibitions. His works were introduced in a book entitled Showa no kyosho sakuhinshu (the works of cloisonné art by the masters of the Showa Period), published by the Japan Cloisonné Artists Association (Nihon Shippo sakka kyokai) in 2000. Ota Yoshiaki (1949), Hiroaki’s son, continues the Ota workshop nowadays, testifying that the Ota family has made the Cloisonné-ware one of the most popular crafts in Japan. With the original wood store box, tomobako, inscribed and signed.