page_title: Ando Cloisonné Company
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Ando Cloisonné Company / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Andō Juzaemon (安藤重左衛門), one of the founders of the Ando Cloisonné Company, Nagoya. Ando Cloisonné Museum, Nagoya.
context_page_description: Ando Cloisonné Company is a Japanese cloisonné making company located in Sakae, Nagoya, central Japan.
context_section_description: Owari province was one of the foremost production centres of enamel in the country. During the Edo period the Andō family operated a pipe shop called "Murata-ya". Andō Jubei (Jusaburo) (1876-1953) was born in Nagoya as the fourth child; he had three elder sisters. His mother died in May 1877 following an illness, and his father followed in September 1877. Orphaned at less than one year old, he was raised according to his father’s will by staff employers. His older sister married Andō Juzaemon, whose born name was Matsukichi. Together with his brother-in-law they made the cloisonné company a success. In 1893, Andō Juzaemon went to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It was his first time to travel overseas, and he used the opportunity to study the market. In 1901 Andō Jubei went to the Glasgow International Exhibition, which was his first overseas travel, and he stayed for two years in a British home to study the market.
  After they returned to Japan, they invited Kawade Shibatarō (1856–1921) as head of the studio, who further developed plique-à-jour. Cloisonné experienced strong growth around the time of the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900. Japanese enamel work became sought after in the west and sourced many pieces from Toshima, which is the origin of Owari cloisonne.
  As of 1918, at least fifty cloisonné artists worked there. The company was given an Imperial Warrant of Appointment to the Japanese court. Ando cloisonné was also presented as state gifts. Manchukuo Prime Minister Zheng Xiaoxu (1860-1938) wrote four Chinese characters in calligraphy in praise of a vase that was presented to him as a gift. 
  It entered a cooperation with the watches maker Seiko to produce the dial for the limited edition "Presage" in 2018.
  It is one of the very few traditional cloisonné companies still left in Japan.
  The main store in Sakae has a small museum with objects by the Ando company and also Namikawa. Objects from Ando are held in the collection of the Walters Art Museum and in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
caption: Andō Juzaemon, one of the founders of the company
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