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Wikipedia Project	Ando Cloisonne Company (Japanese Art) Existing Ando Cloisonné Company is a Japanese cloisonné making company located in Nagoya. As of 1918, at least fifty cloisonné artists worked there.[1] Objects from Ando are held in the collection of the Walters Art Museum[2] and in the Victoria and Albert Museum. References[edit] 1.	Jump up ^ Fred Wellington Ruckstull (1918). Art world. Kalon. p. 448. Retrieved 18 April 2012. 2.	Jump up ^ "Vase with Flowering Cherry and Birds". Collections. Walters Art Museum. Retrieved 18 April 2012. New

Background
Ando Cloisonne Co., Ltd is a Japanese specialty store dedicated to the sales of Cloisonne items which is a type of Japanese art involving the use of wires and vases to make elaborate artwork of which currently today some of those pieces are priced in the millions of dollars. The company was founded during the month of June during the year of 1880 on the island of Japan by a man named Mr. Jubei Ando. At this time the name of the company was originally named as the Ando Company which it would be known as for the next several decades. It was not until the year of 1948 that the name would be changed by Mr. Jubei Andos grandson to the Ando Cloisonne Company Ltd. Today the Ando Cloisonné Company Ltd. currently has enrolled at this company no less than 35 employees. The current chief executive of the company is Juro Ando whom is the descendant of the founder Mr. Jubei Ando. The telephone number to reach the company is 052-251-1371. The company is currently headquartered in Aichi, Japan at the moment. For the month of September during the year of 2011 the total yearly sales was 380 million yen which translates to 3,196,636 US dollars which is down from the previous year of 2010 when during the month of September it was determined the Ando Cloisonné Company Ltd. had a total sales of 432 million yen which translates to 3,634,070.40 in US dollars and from the year of 2009 during the month of September which had a total sales of 422 million yen or 3,549,948.40 in US dollars.

Cloisonné
Cloisonné is a Japanese art involving the use of wires on vases to create dramatic color schemes dating back to 3000 b.c. To make a real cloisonné artwork it may take an artist around two to three months to fully complete the art work but for some of the more elaborate pieces a whole year is needed to fully complete the art work because it takes patience and precision to work the art into a realization of the vision of the artist. These pieces are so difficult to make that they are impossible to duplicate even by the artists themselves. Currently the art of Cloisonné is slowly dying out because in order to create a new cloisonné artist they have to begin studying as a child for it takes around ten to fifteen years for anyone to get good enough at the art to produce worthy artwork. There are currently only one hundred artists in three different factories in Japan producing roughly four hundred pieces of cloisonné a year. These new pieces are priced anywhere from ten dollars for the smallest pieces to a few thousand for the bigger pieces. Collectors of these pieces buy the new ones as well as the ones which date back thousands of years to periods such as the Ming Dynasty.

Mr Tsuruya Sakurai
A special and very well respected lifetime employee of the Ando Cloisonne Company Ltd. was a man by the name of Tsuruya Sakurai who was born in Nagano, Japan in 1923. During World War Two the founder of Ando Cloisonne, Mr. Jubei Ando needed a place to stay and ended up living with Mr. Tsuruya Sakuria’s relatives in a small area of the countryside of rural Japan. At this home Mr. Sakurai met Mr. Ando and the two became friends. Eventually Mr. Sakurai was offered a job to work for Mr. Ando with his company. The original job that Mr. Tsuruya was offered was to be a secretary for Mr. Ando but soon he began to be taught about the art of enameling and spent the next decade of his life dedicated to studying the art. Mr. Tsuruya worked as an artist at the company until the year 2000 when he retired but to this day he continues to teach the art of enameling in workshops.