those lacquer artists that have been named as Living National Treasures are Kazumi Murose (????), Koichi Nakano (????), Fumio Mae (???), Masami Isoi (????), Hitoshi Ota (???), Yoshito Yamashita (????), Isao Onishi (???), Kunie Komori (????), Kiichiro Masumura (?????), and Shosai Kitamura (????).

Past Living National Treasures were Shozan Takano (????), Gonroku Matsuda (????), Naoji Terai (????), Yoshikuni Taguchi (????), Shogyo Oba (????), Otomaru Kodo (????),