{"id":6849,"date":"2012-12-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/chinese-or-japanese-pearls-part-1\/"},"modified":"2012-12-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T23:00:00","slug":"chinese-or-japanese-pearls-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/chinese-or-japanese-pearls-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese or Japanese pearls? – part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last century pearl’s world has been subjected to drastic evolution with the introduction of “pearl cultivation<\/strong>” which made this field a true industry<\/strong>, not only a simple extraction or manufacturing activity: this revolution started in Japan thanks to the world wide famouse pioneer of pearl cultivation, Kokichi Mikimoto<\/strong>, who in 1920 along with other contributors (Tokishi Nishikawa<\/strong> and Tatsuhei Mise<\/strong>) was able to successfully cultivate the Pinctada Fucata<\/strong> mussels.<\/p>\n

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The natural pearl is (almost) abandoned, creating the first cultivated pearls’ world industry; between the ’60 and ’70 it’s the turn of the Pinctada Maxima<\/strong> to be cultivated, giving bigger and more perfect pearls ohf higher quality.
\nThe australian and tahitian<\/strong> ones make their appearance on the maket and, despite their clearly higher cost than the akoya ones, and become very popular thanks to careful marketing campaigns<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The akoya pearls are undermined because of the excess of black pearls that pour in the market without the consent of the Polinesian govern<\/strong>. In 1996<\/strong> things get even worse for the fine japanese akoya pealrs which undergo a serious loss of mussel (2\/3 of the entire population) because of an infection and successive epidemic. But the situation can even get worse that this, because China<\/strong> steps on the balance of the pearl market.<\/p>\n

If the australian and tahitian ones overtook the japanese pearls in quality, the chinese akoya<\/strong> highly surpassed them in quantity with a massive production that boost up from 5 tons to more than 20 in only 7 years<\/strong>, from 1993 to 2000: China can offer climatic areas<\/strong> similar to the japanese ones, so hundrend of farms start to grow. But if it’s all about quantity and not quality, how can they even compete?<\/p>\n

The focal point is exactly this one, because Japan soon invests in a massive way on the chinese sea shores, collecting the qualities of the chinese akoyas adapting them to the high japanese standards: for this reason the experts of the Pearl World International Pearling Journal<\/strong> say that “a considerable quantity of the salt water pearls that come from Japan are actually produced in China”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the last century pearl’s world has been subjected to drastic evolution with the introduction of “pearl cultivation” which made this field a true industry, not only a simple extraction or manufacturing activity: this revolution started in Japan thanks to the world wide famouse pioneer of pearl cultivation, Kokichi Mikimoto, who in 1920 along with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pearls-and-curiosity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}