Mainly applying the kanshitsu (dry-lacquer) technique, OGURA produces his works with motifs of flowers and natural scenery.
He employs raden (mother-of-pearl inlay) and maki-e (sprinkled picture decoration) expression, and gives the fine appearance of shells by applying the warigai* technique to show the color through the shell, and thus depicts flowers in compositions of contrasting light and shade. In recent years, he has been studying new maki-e techniques with the free use of pictorial expression as found in watercolors.
*Mother-of-pearl shells cut into patterns and artificially cracked to provide ornamentation.