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YAMAMOTO Hideaki
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Yamamoto Hideaki was born in 1940 in Kawada (Fukui Prefecture). His grandfather and his father had worked in the lacquer arts. After finishing junior high school in 1955, he began an apprenticeship in his father’s workshop.
Because his father considered it modern and economical, he began, in the 1960s, to use plastic instead of wood for the core of his lacquer pieces. Hideaki was strictly against the use of plastic. When he took over the workshop in 1970 he immediately changed back to the production of high-quality lacquer pieces with wood cores, with carefully applied foundations and surface lacquering. |
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