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Imura HikojirōⅡ（1864～？）　

 He is the second generation of a company established around 1875 by Imura HikojirōⅠ, who was originally an oil merchant, in an attempt to export ceramics overseas. It is said that by 1877, the company was a top-painting factory with 200 artisans and more than 30 painters. He won many prizes at national and international expositions, including a gold medal at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

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Inoue Jihyōe（1854～1905）

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 Born in 1854 in Seto, Japan. In 1893, he exhibited his work at the Chicago World's Fair, which brought him fame, and at the 1900 Paris World's Fair, he was one of the Japanese delegates, and his work won the Gold Medal. Afterwards, he remained at the Sevres Pottery to continue his research, but after returning to Japan, he fell ill and died in 1906.

 He specialized in underglaze painting and was highly regarded, as were Miyagawa KōzanⅠ and Nishiura EnjiⅤ.

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Hyōchien company（1873～1909）

 This factory was established by Kahara Noritatsu in Tōkyō after the Vienna World Exposition in 1873 to produce overglaze enamels for export. The factory became an exclusive factory of the "Morimura-Gumi company" around 1895, and was absorbed into the "Morimura-Gumi company" around 1898, and closed in 1909, effectively dissolving the company.

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​Morimura-Gumi company

 A company established in Ginza in 1876 by Morimura Ichizaemon VI, an arms and harness dealer in Kyōbashi, Edo, together with his half-brother Toyo. Toyo came to the U.S. as one of the "U.S. Commercial Law Trainees" with the help of Fukuzawa Yukichi, and opened "Morimura Brothers" (Morimura-Gumi company New York Branch) in 1878. In the early days, Morimura Brothers retailed ceramics, lacquerware, lanterns, and other items purchased from Japan, but later shifted to wholesale sales, and as the volume of exports increased, he moved and consolidated his painting factories in Tōkyō and Kyōto to Nagoya, where fabrics were produced. As the export volume increased, the company relocated and consolidated its painting factories in Tōkyō and Kyōto to Nagoya, where fabrics were produced. The company followed its own sales strategy and did not exhibit at World Expositions.

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