Yahoo! News "pearl of abalone in Super market" "is a real treasure? Why is it rare (Fuji TV (FNN))"-
It looks like a pearl wrapped in an elegant luster, but the place where it was found was unexpected. The person who found the "pearl" "I bought a half-price abalone at a local seafood supermarket and pecked it with chopsticks, and it came out from inside.
I was born in 1956 (Showa 31). In the 30's of the Showa era, pearls were cultivated in this Okikamuro. The processing plant was a house near the old elementary school. I called it Ishibu-san in the shop name.
In the sea of my house front, rafts for culturing pearl oysters were assembled. I think it continued until I was a high school student. When I was fishing in the vicinity with a ‘tenma’ boat, I was often sucked by a raft and had a hard time getting out. Dengo fish was swarming in the vicinity.
There was a shore at the tip of the elementary school playground, and pearl oyster shells were piled up around the base. There was an iron bar in front of it, and while playing, I played by throwing pearl oysters. Small pearls were rolling through the gap, which was not uncommon. If I think about it now, I should have picked it up and saved it.
It's a pearl, but it wasn't so rare on the island. A lot of Seto shellfish can be caught on this island. The large native Seto shellfish in it can reach 20 cm or more. Natural pearls can be found in the Seto shellfish with a relatively high probability. Sometimes there are black pearls. In fact, it interferes with cooking and sometimes bites in your mouth. I don't think pearl is in small Igai shellfish.
Well, I was surprised that the abalone also had pearls. I didn't know that abalone was a kind of snail, but it fits well in a single shell.
The story changes, but we can't eat the pearl oysters because they are so ugly. Like the scallops, the adductor muscles are delicious. I was sent to buy to Ishibu-san for our dinner. I think it was 200 yen for a cup of donburi. The sashimi is delicious, but my mother often made kakiage tempra. I liked kakiage better than sashimi.
There is a description in Towacho magazine that Professor Tsuneichi Miyamoto cultivated pearls in Towacho. I haven't touched on pearl farming in the Okikamuro or Jikamuro, but it seems that it was also done in the Mori, Wada, and Kodomari. According to the stories from friends in each district, it seems that people from Toba and other areas were cultivating all over Suo-Oshima.
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Shoji Matsumoto
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