{"id":6852,"date":"2012-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/kasumi-ga-ura-pearls\/"},"modified":"2012-12-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T23:00:00","slug":"kasumi-ga-ura-pearls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/kasumi-ga-ura-pearls\/","title":{"rendered":"Kasumi-ga-Ura pearls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since always Japan has been known and renowned for its great history<\/strong> and traditions<\/strong>, deeply rooted in its population: the pearl cultivation<\/strong> is no exception and the same country gives birth to this tecnique which later evolved into a true industrial sector.<\/p>\n

Many freshwater and salt water pearls<\/strong> are cultivated in Japan – like the Akoya<\/strong> ones and Biwa<\/strong> ones – but not so many people know the Kasumi-ga-Ura<\/strong> ones, particular baroque pearls with n irregular surface<\/strong>, as fascinating as rare to be found nowadays.<\/p>\n

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Between the 70s and the 80s<\/strong> Biwa lake employed hundreds of people in the pearl cultivation, since Biwa<\/strong> meant highest quality freshwater pearls in the world, but pollution didn’t arrive too late and at the end of 1980<\/strong> all the efforts and sacrifices had become useless: the attempts to establish – partly at least – the production of pearls once again in the Kasumi-ga-Ura lake<\/strong> challenged both the market and the natural environment, but with the entry of China all the production (aside form the in-body nucleation) were discontinued.<\/p>\n

In 2010<\/strong> an additional blow hit this small – and now family-based – cultivation: the Chinese companies<\/strong> are finally able to introduce in the market pearls with in-body nucleation<\/strong> and X-rays can confirm it: with a drilled nucleus up to the Japanese standards, these pearls can considerably resume the Kasumi<\/strong> ones and, despite the small differences, China proves to the have ability to produce them.<\/p>\n

Since 1992 a considerable quantity of baroque pearls imported from the Pacific came from the Kasumi-ga-Ura area, but because of the massive death<\/strong> begun in the 2003<\/strong>, which caused the loss of the 80%<\/strong> pearls under cultivation, has also damaged the “baroqueness” of each harvest, lowering their quality: this fact didn’t properly ruined the market, which usually asks for smoother pearls, but regular pearls can’t have the peculiar colors which characterize the baroque ones.<\/p>\n

Despite the big obstacle that this small cultivation had to bear through the years, there are still some operators<\/strong> (5 in 2009<\/strong>) which pursue this project thanks to their dedication and personal love for this craft<\/strong> and this type of pearl. In 2010<\/strong> the production slightly rose up compared with the last year, but the death rate is still high and cultivators are waiting a stronger hybrid<\/strong> for their cultivations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since always Japan has been known and renowned for its great history and traditions, deeply rooted in its population: the pearl cultivation is no exception and the same country gives birth to this tecnique which later evolved into a true industrial sector. Many freshwater and salt water pearls are cultivated in Japan – like the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rare-pearls"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852","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=6852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}