Japanese Akoya Pearls: Beauty Personified!

Pearls and Japan have a deep association. The country is one of the largest producers of unblemished glowing pearls, commonly known as Akoya Pearls. These pearls generally have thick nacre and intense luster and have universal fan following. Japanese Akoya Pearls are produced by salt-water based small oysters called Pinctada fucata martensii. The average size of these pearls ranges from 6 mm to 7 mm. Pearls having the size of 10 mm are very rare. Also, they are very costly for an average buyer to buy.

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Akoya pearls are precious. The best time to harvest these cultured pearls is when the oysters are inactive. Harvesting in an appropriate time helps in building thick nacre and pearls with shiny exterior.

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Pearls have been valued for their beauty and rarity for more than four thousand years. From ancient China, India and Egypt, to Imperial Rome, to the Arab world that the Indians, cultures from around the world and throughout recorded history have valued these unique, biologically based gems – much longer than any other gem.

The pearl is the only gem which grown inside a living organism. Pearls are formed within oysters or molluscs, when a foreign substance (most often a parasite – not a grain of sand) invades the shell of molluscs entering the soft mantle tissue, and picking up epithelial cells. In response to irritation and epithelial cells form into a sac (known as a pearl SAC), which secretes a crystalline substance called Nacre is the same substance which makes up the interior of the oyster's shell, which builds up in layers around the irritant, is pearl.