Shining Hope in Murky Water

Thr title is for from a newspaper article, published in 1995:  It quotes Japan's only active freshwater pearl farmer, Kiyoshi Yoneguchi

" The water in the rivers around here (Kasumi-ga-Ura) has power. That is why pearls grow. The lake itself is so polluted that they cannot.    I would rather not breed more resistant mussels;  I want the lake to become clean, as it was before."

Kiyoshi Yoneguchi and Sarah Canizzaro at Live Event Venue

Pearl Paradise LLC and Pacific Pearls' Sarah Canizarro held the first Live Event in the Kasumi-ga-Ura area on 24 April 2024.   It is hoped that this can become an annual event.

Jeremy & Hisano Sheppard (Pearl Paradise LLC) holding hybrid mussel   shells, Kiyoshi Yoneguchi, Sarah Canizzaro and Satya Davidson

 To view videos of this and other live events, go to pearlparadise.com/live-events or follow this link to YouTube: here.