Tsuge Metal Bamboo Sandblasted Billiard w/ Brass Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

Tsuge is Japan’s largest and most internationally renowned pipe company, having been founded in 1936 by Kyoichiro Tsuge. In the 1970s, however, Tsuge himself was so impressed by the pipes coming out of Denmark, that he sent two of Tsuge’s own master pipe-makers, Kazuhiro Fukuda and Smio Satou, to hone their craft under the likes of Sixten Ivarsson and Jørgen Larsen. Upon their return, the Tsuge Ikebana workshop was established so that Fukuda, Satou, and their apprentices would have the means to create high-grade Japanese pipes to rival even those being made in Europe’s pipe-making capitals. Alongside the Ikebana workshop, Tsuge expanded its range of standard models to reflect the company’s new Scando-Japanese style, including designs by Danish icons such as Jorn Micke and Geert Holbek.

Bamboo has played a central role in post-war pipe making—especially the Danish variety that was so influential for Tsuge—and within Japanese culture more generally, and over the decades Tsuge has created several pipe models featuring bamboo shank extensions. A few years ago, however, Tsuge paid tribute to this horticultural heritage with a series of pipes adorned with golden collars, each of which was engraved to resemble a bamboo knuckle. Combined with a crisp, black sandblast, the result was a distinctly Japanese re-imagining of the English dress pipe, as seen on this large billiard model.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating. It comes with its original box and sleeve.

 

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.81 / 20.57mm

Bowl Depth: 1.62″ / 41.14mm

Weight: 2.0oz / 58g