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2. Cultured freshwater pearls - Wikipedia

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   This mussel produced a high volume of low-quality pearls that came to be known as "raisin pearls" in the 1970s and 1980s. More than a decade ago the freshwater pearl industry of China shifted production from the cockscomb pearl mussel to the triangle shell mussel (Hyriopsis cumingii). The triangle shell produced fewer pearls, accepting only 12 ...

3. Keshi pearl - Wikipedia

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   Assorted keshi pearls. Keshi pearls are small non-nucleated pearls typically formed as by-products of pearl cultivation. A Japanese word also meaning "poppy" (ケシ, 芥子), it is used in Japanese for all pearls that grew without a nucleus. Originally, keshi pearls referred to those pearls formed when a bead nucleus was rejected.

4. Jintan (Japanese medicine) - Wikipedia

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   Jintan purchased at Tokyo Station in December 2014 Jintan pearls Statue of Morishita Hiroyoshi (Nunakuma-Shrine, Fukuyama). Jintan (仁丹) is the trademarked name of a popular Japanese medicine/candy, developed by Morishita Hiroshi (1869–1943), and sold from the early twentieth century to today.

5. Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. - Wikipedia

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   Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. (西本貿易株式会社, Nishimoto Bōeki Kabushiki Gaisha) is a Japanese import, export, wholesale and distribution company that mainly handles Asian food products. [4] Established in 1912, the company is headquartered in Hamamatsuchō, Minato, Tokyo, and has branch offices around the world. [5]

6. Mikimoto Pearl Island - Wikipedia

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   The island is known as the birthplace of cultured pearl aquaculture. The island is owned by Mikimoto Pearl Museum Co., Ltd. (株式会社ミキモト真珠島, Kabushiki-Gaisha-Mikimoto-Shinju-Jima), which operates the island as a tourist attraction, exhibiting pearls and pearl craft goods, and holding shows featuring ama divers.

7. Ama (diving) - Wikipedia

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   Japanese tradition holds that the practice of ama may be 2,000 years old. [2] Pearl divers in white uniforms, 1921. Records of female pearl divers, or ama, date back as early as AD 927 in Japan's Heian period. Early ama were known to dive for seafood and were honored with the task of retrieving abalone for shrines and imperial emperors.