Hiroshi Yamano has worked throughout the world as an instructor at the prestigious Pilchuck Glass School, as a lecturer at The Glass Art Society conference in Mexico, The Aus Glass Conference in Australia and the Vanersborg Glass Festival in Sweden. He has even been invited to be a guest artist at Waterford Crystal in Ireland.

At the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York, Yamano began his series entitled "From East to West" and it was at that time he developed the technique for which he is best known: rolling thickly blown hot glass over silver leaf to fuse it, etching figures into the surface, and then electro-plating the surface with more metal (copper). The idea for this technique came from studying Japanese metal work which is used for making traditional objects such as sword guards and copper containers. Yamano believes that the fish in his "From East to West" series are self-portraits with the mountains representing the United States and the water symbolizing Japan with its rivers, lakes and oceans.