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Japanese Jewelry - expand your options!
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Written By:
Slava Diamy
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Japan jewelry making started less than a hundred years ago. Unlike other crafts in Japan it had a strong influence of Western culture. There was a wonderful miracle was born through the magic of two cultures joining. <br />
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Japanese crafts were always full of ideas and meanings, a careful approach must be taken when selecting Japan jewellery. If you choose the right pair of earrings - you might get happy, longevity might be on the way, and fate may be hiding in lucky earrings. <br />
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Many jewelry items are named and created by the image of something very important to culture. It is very unusual for Japanese jewellery to be abstract. For example, take a dragon earrings. Dragon symbolizes strength, fortune and prosperity; Japanese Happiness Earrings, which are shaped after Japanese glyph of "happiness". <br />
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Japanese jewelry is very fine in detail, which is something you can expect from a nation that creates computers. Every detail is well-thought and full of meaning, so you shouldn't worry wearing any of those Japanese rings, bracelets or chains. <br />
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To see something really astonishing you should try searching Google Images for "japanese tiara" - now that's where sophisticated high-tech meets art! It's amazing! <br />
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Can you imaging 600 silver pieces in chain with diamons that form a bracelet! Can you imagine 600 chains on your hand? That's what Japanese jewellery is all about. <br />
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Jewellers try to fit into individualist world, where everybody must have a very sophisticated unique jewelry. Japan jewelry is very distinctive and attention-grabbing. <br />
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It's weird but it's much easier to find something - continued below ...
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Japanese silver, than anything in gold. <br />
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A deep search exposed us astonishing pearl-decorated golden ring and pearl earrings. I would have never thought that pearl could match gold so perfectly! To see that, I did a search for "Japanese diamond ring" in Google Images. It's funny that Japanese pearl decoration can be found via diamond link. And if you'll surf thru - you can find some really spectacular Japanese rings and neckwear. Everything is made with a great sense of detail, like I told you. <br />
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Really interesting things can be found by a Cornelis Hollander, nine-time winner of the "International Pearl Design" contest in Japan (and a couple of other big name titles), he is really innovative. His golden rings possess style and uniqueness, bringing a fresh breath of air into jewelry. Being a Netherlands-born and winning nine-time title in Pearl Design Contest in Japan, he must have really stimulated Japanese crafters to seek new ways to design pearl rings. If you followed me search above - you'll probably agree with me: this influenced Japanese Jewelry in a very positive ways. <br />
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Last but not least in Japanese jewelery is charms of Japan. If you are lucky enough to find a charm with Japanese Faith symbol - be sure to have one. I'll let you figure how does this Japanese symbol look like on your own. After all - you must be unusually lucky to find this. Try yourself! I did.
About the Author
Slava Diamy is an author of Diamy.Com - Jewelry Blog, where you can join us for a discussion of "Enormous jewelry for dancers value" article and subscribe to receive new articles.
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