From Japonisme to Art Nouveau Fujie Eiko, the first director of the Gojozaka Ceramics Laboratory in Kyoto, and Nakazawa Iwata, the future principal of the Kyoto College of Technology, visited the 1900 Paris World's Fair. Art nouveau, which was in vogue at the time, took the exposition by storm and greatly impressed these men. Many of the European ceramics that Fujie and Nakazawa later acquired as reference material for research and education continue to be housed today at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science, which followed the tradition of the Gojo Ceramics Laboratory, and Technology Kyoto Institute of Technology, the successor of the Kyoto College of Technology. Vase with flowering plants in polychrome underglaze Sevres factory, France Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Chubu