The Owari region (now part of Aichi Prefecture), including the cities of Ama and Nagoya, are the best-known areas for Japanese cloisonné. Owari Shippo is particularly famous for its vibrant colors and motifs from the natural world. The region’s emergence as a center for this craft dates back to the early 1800s, when Tsunekichi KAJI, a feudal retainer of the Owari domain (now western Aichi Prefecture), studied cloisonné plates imported from the Netherlands to understand and adopt the methods used to make them. The cloisonné manufacturing processes he developed spread rapidly across the region, taking root in local villages as an industry, and the cloisonne crafts produced in the Owari region became known as Owari Shippo.