松田真珠養殖の松田氏＠九十九島の養殖場 いつも大変お世話になる松田氏。この日は冬とは思えないよいお天気で風がなく海日和。海の上の真珠小屋を訪れました。浜揚げの時期ここで真珠を海から出す作業をし、大村湾に持ち帰り珠出しをします。お弁当を持って船に乗り、一日この小屋にて作業です。見せていただくために採った真珠は、塩をつけて揉み綺麗にしました。
Matsuda pearl farm @ Kujūku Islands: Mr. Mastuda has taken so much care with the acoya project and I really appreciate his efforts and wish to thank him from the bottom of my heart.
It was a wonderful still day, very warm no hint of winter. It was so beautiful for sailing we visited at the Mr. Matsuda’s pearl hut floating out at sea. During the harvest season, they bring their lunch and spend whole day there. The last picture shows the clean pearls after washing them pearls with salt.
冷水岳のテッペンより。真珠の海が広がっています。九十九島から平戸まで見えます、本当に誰もいなーい、とてもよい眺め。黄砂とPMで霞んでました。左のほうには松田さんの真珠島も少し見えます。
From the peak of the Reisui mountain. The view of the pearl sea below , and the islands of Hirado and Kujūku. it was so very beautiful but also quite remote, we were all alone there. Sadly the view was largely overshadowed by lots of yellow sand and airborn dust from China. On the left side, we could see the Mr. Matsuda’s island.
川口真珠さん。テキパキとお仕事される奥様、ユニークなご主人。人懐こく挨拶してくださるスタッフの方々。ここでは作業中の採れたて真珠の貝柱をいただきました。海の塩味が効いていて美味しい。ここはあと少しでもう平戸。小さな入江と島々、真珠の養殖場があるところは人口少なく、しかしながら静かな美しい風景が広がる場所です。海は満遍なく豊かさを運んでくれます。なのに水辺をコンクリートで埋めて海辺の生き物が住めなくなる、生態系が崩れる・・・人間も自然も困る・・・近代の人間は不思議なことばかりしてきています。
Kawaguchi Pearl farm: This farm is run by a couple,the husband is quite a character, his wife, busy and alert but always with a smile. The stuff are friendly too. When we visited there, they were working on packing scallops so we ate just salt of the sea and it was delicious. The location of the pearl farm is in a very calm, and secluded cove sounded by lovely landscape. Even in the such a location where the sea bring riches evenly, human fill in the shore with concrete and sea-life ecosystem is destroyed.
Human is in modern times act strangely toward nature, inflicting damage seemingly without care.
伊藤真珠養殖場さん。私たちが着いた時には一日の仕事がもうほぼ終わりでした。ピンク色に染まる空に飛行機雲が流れていました。冬の夕暮れは早く、あっという間に日が沈む。
そして広がる静寂。採れたての真珠をお互い見せながら今年の真珠の具合をお話している松田氏と伊藤氏。私は何もかもピンクになった夕暮れのいろがあまりにも美しく’ドカス’と書かれた個性的な真珠を一握り、空の下で写真をとりました。夕暮れのピンクが重なる真珠、秘密の魔法がかかったようです。
Ito Pearl farm：When we arrived the work of the day had almost finished. Sunset was quite early as the sun goes down very quickly in winter. After the sunset I saw an airplane track through the sky as it changed to pink. The area felt surrounded by thick silence…. Mr. Ito and Mr. Matsuda were discussing the condition of the pearls this year and the sky was so lovely with the color of the pink twilight. I grabed a handful of the pearls labelled ‘leave aside’ and we took pictures under the pink sky. The pearls seem magically alive in the sunset light.
Photo：Junya Igarashi
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freshly -harvest pearls
winter 2018
今年の冬に採れたばかりのあこや真珠のオーダー会を行います。12月は浜揚げと呼ばれる真珠の収穫の季節です。冬の寒さで真珠が最も美しく輝く時と言われます。この凍える寒さの中、真珠の養殖業の方々は連日 黙々とお仕事をされています。採れたばかりの真珠は潤いを含み、活き活きとして愛おしく生命の美しさを感じます。海から生まれた偶然の命は、どれ１つとして同じ色、形はありません。’acoya’ はこのように１つ１つがユニークなあこや真珠を中心に紹介しています。この真珠の様々な物語をお伝えする‘真珠をめぐる物語’のお話会も行います。是非、長崎の海からの宝物を探しにお越しください。
‘acoya’ will hold a special ordering event for Akoya pearls freshly harvested in the winter of 2018. December is the traditional harvest season and is called ‘ Hama-age’. It is said that pearls become most brilliant with cold of winter and in this such a cold atmosphere, the akoya farmers have worked silently. The fleshly- harvested pearls are moist with vitality and loveliness, each with unique color and form, a fortuitous life born from the sea. ‘acoya’ presents unique akoya pearls, each one a different type of life.
I would like to share with you some of their stories, so I will present “ A story of the pearls”on 22th Dec.2018.
Please attend to discover the treasures born in the sea of Nagasaki. I look forward to seeing you there!
会期/PERIOD
2018.12.21(Fri)-24(Sun)
トーク/Talk
2018.12.22 (Sat) 17:30-18:30
‘真珠をめぐる物語/ a story of pearls’
開館時間
14:00-20:00
場所/Venue
K&K
港区西麻布3-13-15 K plaza B2
B2 K plaza 3-13-15, Nishiazabu Minato-ku Tokyo Japan
お問い合わせ/contact
C[at]candheart.com
acoya Production: C& http://www.candheart.com/index.html