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2. Kokichi Mikimoto - Wikipedia

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   Kokichi Mikimoto (Japanese: 御木本 幸吉, Hepburn: Mikimoto Kōkichi, 25 January 1858 – 21 September 1954) was a Japanese entrepreneur who is credited with creating the first cultured pearl and subsequently starting the cultured pearl industry with the establishment of his luxury pearl company Mikimoto.

3. Mikimoto Pearl Island - Wikipedia

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   Mikimoto Pearl Island [1]. Mikimoto Pearl Island (ミキモト真珠島, Mikimoto-Shinju-Jima) is a small island in Ise Bay, offshore Toba, Mie Prefecture, Japan.The island is known as the birthplace of cultured pearl aquaculture.

4. Ama (diving) - Wikipedia

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   However, Mikimoto Kōkichi's discovery and production of the cultured pearl in 1893 produced a great demand for ama. He established the Mikimoto Pearl Island in Toba and used the ama 's findings to grow his business internationally. [5] Nowadays, the pearl-diving ama are viewed as a tourist attraction at Mikimoto Pearl Island. [6]

5. Chrome Hearts Gets Glam With a New Collaboration

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   That's how Jesse Jo Stark, the creative director of L.A.-based jewelry label Chrome Hearts, describes her new collaboration with the 131-year-old pearl jewelry maker Mikimoto.

6. Pearl - Wikipedia

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   Nuclei from Mikimoto Pearl Island, Toba, Japan. Cultured pearls are the response of the shell to a tissue implant. A tiny piece of mantle tissue (called a graft) from a donor shell is transplanted into a recipient shell, causing a pearl sac to form into which the tissue precipitates calcium carbonate. There are a number of methods for producing ...

7. Ago Bay - Wikipedia

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   Pearl cultivation was first invented in the bay by Kōkichi Mikimoto in 1893. [4] The cultured pearl industry soon took root in the area. However, in the 1900s, environmental degradation affected the bay's marine life. Development of the surrounding land and the construction of concrete dikes cut into the area's tidal flats.