The Man With The Most Valuable Jewelry Collection You Never Knew Existed

In the rarefied world of high jewelry collectors and academics Arikawa is well known but to the larger jewelry and art loving public in the western world he is undiscovered "I believe the Albion Art collection must be one of the greatest private collections of historic jewelry in the world," said Vivienne Becker, a leading jewelry historian and author who has seen far more private jewelry collections than most people His mother founded a traditional jewelry retail store when he was young and during his time of indecision, his sister took over the business and he helped her.

"For the next 15 years we were selling only to private clients I opened a small antique jewelry shop in Fukuoka and it all started from there, more than 30 years ago Within a few years I became the leading antique jewelry dealer in Japan.

I wanted to be the best dealer in the world." "I realized through my Buddhist training that jewelry is not only decorative, that it has an essential spiritual dimension My comprehension of the true nature of jewelry and beauty comes half from Buddhism and half from the impact of handling such beautiful works of art," he said "This gave me a mission to create a real jewelry culture, to show the real meaning of jewelry.

I never doubted after that I was no longer confused I had direction.

And it came from the light, brilliance and infinite depth - the shining - of gems and jewels." Collecting jewelry is not only his life's work but in his own way he believes he is making the world a better place. . Source