Namikawa Yasuyuki

[2] He and Namikawa Sōsuke (no relation)[notes 1] were the most famous cloisonné artists of the 1890 to 1910 period, known as the "Golden age" of Japanese enamels.

[7][8] These tours began in a garden to introduce Japanese aesthetics, and Namikawa would show the many stages of his production process, including fourteen polishing stones of different roughness that were used in sequence.

[5] His style was shaped by his contact with Gottfried Wagener, a German scientist brought to Japan by the government to help modernise Japanese industry.

He places great emphasis on fine wirework and on a flawless surface with no pitting or bubbles, achieved through painstaking study of glazing and firing.

"[12]At the National Industrial Exhibition of 1881, Namikawa was awarded second prize for a copper vase "of elegant shape with opaque and transparent colors and complicated wire-work, with no trace of cracks.

The most highly acclaimed and famous of his works is the 1899 Vase with Flowers and Birds of the Four Seasons (四季花鳥図花瓶) which is owned by the Museum of the Imperial Collections.