Demonstration: Making Kiseru Tobacco Pipes with KISERU-YA NOBORU

Kiseru are Japanese tobacco pipes. Often decoratively carved they were once an important fashion accessory for men during the Edo and Meiji periods in Japan. By 1930 Tsubame-Sanjo had become Japan’s top producer of kiseru; however, as demand shifted from kiseru to paper cigarettes after WWII, kiseru production declined.

Visitors to Japan House will be able to gain a rare insight into the age-old art of kiseru pipe making with a demonstration by the last craftsman producing handmade metal kiseru in Tsubame-Sanjo today, IIZUKA Noboru from the workshop Kiseru-ya Noboru.

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