Highways And Homes of Japan
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For although experiments have been made in Germany and Australia with pearl- oysters, and also in Paris with the abalone shell,* the * Abaione fishing, formerly a fruitful source of profit in Japan, is now prohibited by Imperial edict, the Japanese having caught this valuable shell-fish so diUgently that the fishing-grounds have been depleted. The pretty iridescent souvenirs sold at Enoshima are now made from abalone shells sent over from CaUfomia by the Japanese divers there.
218 HIGHWAYS AND ...HOMES OF JAPAN results have been of little financial value. The Chinese * have also raised pearls by inserting grains of clay between the shell and the thin outer membrane which covers the soft body of the fresh- water mussel ; but the best of these are of very inferior quality, and are valuable merely as curios. I bought in Canton a beautiful imitation cameo in mother-of-pearl, which was obtained by inserting a small metal image of Buddha into the shell in this way.
Japanese workers at the pearl banks have many diffi- culties to overcome both in collecting the small oyster- spat, which is usually deposited in shallow water where it would die from cold, and so has to be transferred to the beds prepared for it in deeper water, and also during the four years when these marine organisms " suffer a sea change into something rich and strange " ; for a too luxuriant growth of seaweed (codium) may play havoc in the culture grounds, and unwelcome intruders like the octopus and starfish are especially fond of a meal of pearl-oysters.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
For although experiments have been made in Germany and Australia with pearl- oysters, and also in Paris with the abalone shell,* the * Abaione fishing, formerly a fruitful source of profit in Japan, is now prohibited by Imperial edict, the Japanese having caught this valuable shell-fish so diUgently that the fishing-grounds have been depleted. The pretty iridescent souvenirs sold at Enoshima are now made from abalone shells sent over from CaUfomia by the Japanese divers there.
218 HIGHWAYS AND ...HOMES OF JAPAN results have been of little financial value. The Chinese * have also raised pearls by inserting grains of clay between the shell and the thin outer membrane which covers the soft body of the fresh- water mussel ; but the best of these are of very inferior quality, and are valuable merely as curios. I bought in Canton a beautiful imitation cameo in mother-of-pearl, which was obtained by inserting a small metal image of Buddha into the shell in this way.
Japanese workers at the pearl banks have many diffi- culties to overcome both in collecting the small oyster- spat, which is usually deposited in shallow water where it would die from cold, and so has to be transferred to the beds prepared for it in deeper water, and also during the four years when these marine organisms " suffer a sea change into something rich and strange " ; for a too luxuriant growth of seaweed (codium) may play havoc in the culture grounds, and unwelcome intruders like the octopus and starfish are especially fond of a meal of pearl-oysters.
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