1899 Mikimoto Pearl Store opened in Yazaemon Town, Ginza, Tokyo.
190 1 K Mikimoto & Co., Ltd. moved to Kyohashi District, Miyamachi, Tokyo.
1905 Mr. Miki Yuji successfully cultivated spherical pearls.
1906 K Mikimoto & Company opens in Tokyo Ginza Sidingmu.
1907 Japan's first fully equipped jewelry factory was established in Tsukiji, Tokyo.
19 13 Mikimoto stores opened in London and Osaka.
MIKIMOTO Shanghai store opens.
1922 Imperial Hotel Tokyo, Mikimoto opened.
Palau has established a pearl farm.
1924 Mikimoto became the royal jewelry supplier designated by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
MIKIMOTO new york store opens.
1928 Mikimoto opens in Paris.
193 1 opening of Kobe store and Los Angeles store in Mikimoto.
MIKIMOTO Chicago store opens.
MIKIMOTO San Francisco store opens.
195 1 Emperor Hirohito visited Dodd Pearl Farm in Mikimoto.
1952 Mikimoto reorganized and established Mikimoto pearl co., ltd. 1954 visited Mikimoto Dodd pearl farm. Mikimoto died in 1920.
1956 Mikimoto new york Store reopened.
1959 Opening of Osaka Store in Mikimoto.
1962 Okura Hotel in Tokyo, Mikimoto opened.
1963 osaka store in Mikimoto was reorganized into a branch.
1965 Mikimoto pearl jewelry (hk) co., ltd was established.
1966 is located in the headquarters building of Erdingmu in Ginza, Tokyo.
Swiss Mikimoto Pearl Co., Ltd. was established.
Mikimoto Nagoya Store opens.
1969 Opening of Kyoto Store in Mikimoto.
The company was reorganized and Mikimoto Pearl Co., Ltd. was established.
1972 Mikimoto pearl co., ltd and Mikimoto pearl company merged to form k Mikimoto &; Company.
1974 the headquarters building was completed in ginza sidingmu.
Mikimoto Pearl London Limited was established.
MIKIMOTO new york store opens.
1978 new york store was reorganized and Mikimoto (USA) co., ltd was established.
1986 mikimoto French S.A. was founded in Paris's Vendome Square.
1987 Mikimoto international was established.
Established fuma co., ltd.
Gallery Mikimoto Co., Ltd. was established.
1989 Mikimoto yokohama store opened.
Mikimoto Kyoto store opens.
1990 Mikimoto wedding salon opened.
Nagoya store moved and reopened.
The head office has been renovated.
1992 completion of the administration building of Mikimoto, Dongueno, Tokyo.
1993 centennial celebration of successful pearl breeding in Mikimoto;
Mikimoto Library, the first professional jewelry library in Japan, was completed.
Mikimoto and His Jewelry Store's Centennial History was published.
Mikimoto promised to support the Japanese WWF Committee.
Two huge legendary pearls were first exhibited in Japan.
Mikimoto Group founded Mikimoto Marine Ecological Research Trust.
1994 Mikimoto participated in the World Expo held in Mie Prefecture.
Decoration of Ginza Mikimoto International Gift Shop.
Mikimoto (UK) Limited was established.
1995 new york Store moved to 57th Avenue. Mikimoto's London store on New Bond Street is about to open.
Osaka, Mikimoto, opened in Xinqiqiao.
1996 Perlita MIKIMOTO put on the market.
1997 Mikimoto Gift Shop is located in Erdingmu, Ginza.
MIKIMOTO Costa Mesa opened in the South Coast Shopping Center in California, USA.
1999 Mikimoto head office held a centennial celebration in Ginza, Tokyo.
In 2000, MIKIMOTO International Gift Shop in IKSPIARI of Tokyo Disneyland opened.
Decoration of Osaka Store and Shinsaibashi Store.
After the relocation, Yokohama Store was renamed Yokohama Ding Yuan Store.
Mikimoto participated in the exhibition of rough diamonds held in Tokyo National Science Museum.
Mikimoto Mile Store opens in Yokohama landmark tower.
200 1 Beverly hills store opens.
Nagoya Store was relocated and rebuilt with avant-garde design concept.
In 2003, Mikimoto successfully cultured pearls 10 anniversary.
Roppongi Mushan Store opens.
Mikimoto Building has moved away.
Mikimoto (Korea) Co., Ltd. was established.
Decoration of Kuala Lumpur store in Malaysia.
Beverly Hills Store was relocated and rebuilt with avant-garde design concept.
The head office has been renovated.
Osaka, a boutique in Mikimoto, opened in Nanpu Park.
Mikimoto Shanghai Store opened in hang lung plaza in 2004, and Mikimoto is synonymous with the best pearls. 18581October 25th, was born by Ji Mikimoto in the island peninsula of Mie Prefecture. His family has run a small noodle stall for generations, and his father had hoped that he could inherit this ancestral business. However, when Mikimoto was 23 years old, he became interested in local aquaculture. Natural pearls are produced in the coastal areas of Shima Island, and the price is extremely high. In order to obtain pearls, residents have been fishing on the seabed, which makes the number of local mussels less and less. On the one hand, Mikimoto called for the protection of mussels, on the other hand, he fantasized that pearls could be cultivated artificially.
At that time, Japanese marine biologists had discovered that the reason for the formation of pearls was that foreign bodies entered mussels. 1888, Mikimoto established the first pearl mussel farm in a small bay of Zhifu Peninsula. With extraordinary business vision, he began to try to cultivate pearls artificially. After numerous failures, in July 1893, Mikimoto finally found the world's first cultured pearl in his own mussel. Although this is only half a pearl, and its appearance and shape are not good, Mikimoto applied for a Japanese patent for artificial pearl cultivation. Until 1905, Mikimoto found several round pearls with excellent luster in his cultured mussels, which proved that his breeding method was completely successful.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Japan's jewelry manufacturing industry was still underdeveloped, and there were almost no decent Japanese jewelry on the market. In order to develop its own jewelry industry, Mikimoto spared no expense to send personnel to Europe to learn jewelry design skills and production methods. 1907 opened the first "jewelry workshop" in Japan and officially entered the jewelry industry. By 19 1 1, Mikimoto's first overseas branch opened in London, and then many big cities in the world had the shadow of "Mikimoto" jewelry stores.
Due to her outstanding performance, Mikimoto was appointed as a royal jewelry supplier by the Japanese royal family in 1924. After that, the Japanese royal family held a wedding, and Mikimoto jewelry was an essential gift. Even the pearls on the crown and ornaments of the British royal family in Europe were provided by Mikimoto. Over the years, the artificial pearl cultivation method created by Mikimoto has been passed down from generation to generation, and its jewelry has always maintained the pursuit of classic quality, elegance and perfection, and sophisticated technology, so many celebrities all over the world have become loyal supporters of Mikimoto jewelry. Since 2002, Mikimoto has been honored to be the official jewelry sponsor of Miss Universe. Every year, the crown worn by Miss Universe is made in Mikimoto.
Yu Jimu Yu Jifu died on 1954 at the age of 96. After his death, the Japanese government posthumously awarded him the first-class medal of honor in Japan, and the Japanese media also honored him as the "Pearl King". Today, Mikimoto is run by Mikimoto Toyohiko, the fourth generation descendant of the family. Mikimoto Jewellery has opened more than 65,438,000 branches around the world, including a branch in Shanghai, China. Mikimoto 1858 65438+ was born on125 October, and his father was a poor wheat shop owner. When his father/Kloc-died at the age of 0/2, he assumed the responsibility of the eldest son and continued to run the wheat shop business. At the age of 20, he became very interested in mollusks that produce pearls and often interacted with fishermen to collect information. After 10 years of thinking, speculation and exploration, he attended an international fishery exhibition in 1888 and got to know yanai. Liu knows a lot about pearl mollusks and gives Mikimoto a lot of information. That year was also a red-letter day for Mikimoto to marry a young woman, Ume. When he returned to the island, he began his dream of building a pearl farm on several small islands, including Pearl Harbor. At first, only inferior semi-round beads were produced
During the period of 1890, Dr. Keikichi Mizukuri from the University of Tokyo taught Mikimoto very important knowledge of pearl culture. After Mikimoto returned to China, he and his wife spent all their savings on the research of pearl farms. They have worked hard for many years and worked tirelessly in the morning and evening, but to no avail. Neighbors thought the couple were crazy. They tried to insert lead, wood, glass, sand, etc. into oysters, but they failed every time. 1892, a serious red tide killed all the Akoya oysters they raised. 1893165438+1October1kloc-0/was their most exciting day, because his wife found a beautiful semi-circular cultured pearl in his oyster. Mikimoto immediately applied for patent registration. 1896, he finally got the patent right to cultivate semi-circular pearls, and then moved the pearl farm to Tatokujima Island. It's a pity that his wife died suddenly. Instead of being sad, he worked harder to study the method of cultivating round pearls. At the same time, two other people have also done research in this field: Tatsuhei Mise is a carpenter, Tokichi Nishikawa is a zoologist and works as a fishery mechanic in the Japanese Fisheries Agency. Beige successfully cultivated a round pearl in 1904. He applied for a patent in 1907, but it was rejected because Mikimoto obtained a patent for semi-circular pearl culture. In June+10 of the same year, Nishikawa applied for a patent for the cultivation method of round beads, which was approved nine years later, but he died seven years ago! Although Nishikawa's application was several months later than Beige's, Beige's patent was approved as an infringement of Nishikawa. Mikimoto is surprisingly's stepfather, but he doesn't get along well with him. After the death of Nishikawa, Mikimoto and his son arranged to adopt the round pearl culture method invented by him to continue to develop the pearl culture industry.
/kloc-in the 0/9th century, when round pearl culture appeared, people thought it was a fake, just an imitation. 192 1 year, lawsuits were filed in Paris and London to prevent Mikimoto from selling his cultured pearls again. On the contrary, Mikimoto accused those who sold imitation beads of selling their fake beads in the name of "cultured beads", and finally Mikimoto won. He spent a lot of time spreading the knowledge and information about pearl culture in various places to correct people's discrimination and misunderstanding about pearl culture. He has made great contributions to the pearl industry today.