Here's a little help (East Smoke Rising)

Here's a little help
Author: CP	January 12, 2006 at 18:09:49
in reply to: how to smoke kiseru?* posted by Mila on January 10, 2006 at 08:09:29*

I'm afraid I don't have any personal experience, and in my
10 years in Japan I have only seen one smoked once in
public. (Interestingly, it was in a Saty chain shopping
center, inside a Mister Donuts fast food restaurant!)
Anyway, I did a websearch at Google Japan, and when I put
in the Japanese words for kiseru and "how to smoke", I got
a bunch of hits. I translated one basic site. It seems you
first put just a little tobacco in the pipe bowl. The thing
is, there is a special tobacco made just for kiseru that is
apparently different from other pipe tobacco; this could
make your smoking experience good or bad, I would think,
depending on your ability to get this special tobacco.
Anyway, then, the site recommends using a hibachi to light
it (just like I have seen in old movies), but it says if
you don't have that (or, I would imagine, don't want to be
troubled with firing a hibachi up just to fire up your
kiseru LOL), a lighter will do. It then says take one puff,
take another puff, wait a second or two, then take a third
puff and exhale. That is it! It says if this is not enough
tobacco for you, you can repeat the process, after dumping
out the little bit of smoked tobacco in the kiseru bowl.

This is how I have seen them smoked in the old movies.
Sometimes, people (well, the actors in the movies) would
just take one puff and that was it! I kind of wish people
could have such a reduced need for tobacco today, and
really enjoy it in a social sense, instead of the highly
addictive qualities that cigarettes have where a person
ends up smoking 40 cigarettes a day, 10-20 puffs each.

Here is another website about kiseru with good pics:

http://www.geocities.jp/kugurofuto/newpage14.html

Hope this helps some. Let us know how it goes.

By the way, how did you find our East Smoke Rising Board?
It's nice to see new names like yours!

CP

> Hello! My friend gave me an amazing present for x-mas -
> kiseru pipe. But I dont't know how to smoke it! I am from
> russia and it seems so exotic for me! I have not seen it
> before "in the real time", just in movies, so I don't know
> how to put tobacco in it, how much tobacco shall I put and
> so on. Can you help me?
>
> Best regards
>
> Mila

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> I'm afraid I don't have any personal experience, and in my > 10 years in Japan I have only seen one smoked once in > public. (Interestingly, it was in a Saty chain shopping > center, inside a Mister Donuts fast food restaurant!) > Anyway, I did a websearch at Google Japan, and when I put > in the Japanese words for kiseru and "how to smoke", I got > a bunch of hits. I translated one basic site. It seems you > first put just a little tobacco in the pipe bowl. The thing > is, there is a special tobacco made just for kiseru that is > apparently different from other pipe tobacco; this could > make your smoking experience good or bad, I would think, > depending on your ability to get this special tobacco. > Anyway, then, the site recommends using a hibachi to light > it (just like I have seen in old movies), but it says if > you don't have that (or, I would imagine, don't want to be > troubled with firing a hibachi up just to fire up your > kiseru LOL), a lighter will do. It then says take one puff, > take another puff, wait a second or two, then take a third > puff and exhale. That is it! It says if this is not enough > tobacco for you, you can repeat the process, after dumping > out the little bit of smoked tobacco in the kiseru bowl. > > This is how I have seen them smoked in the old movies. > Sometimes, people (well, the actors in the movies) would > just take one puff and that was it! I kind of wish people > could have such a reduced need for tobacco today, and > really enjoy it in a social sense, instead of the highly > addictive qualities that cigarettes have where a person > ends up smoking 40 cigarettes a day, 10-20 puffs each. > > Here is another website about kiseru with good pics: > > http://www.geocities.jp/kugurofuto/newpage14.html > > Hope this helps some. Let us know how it goes. > > By the way, how did you find our East Smoke Rising Board? > It's nice to see new names like yours! > > CP > > > Hello! My friend gave me an amazing present for x-mas - > > kiseru pipe. But I dont't know how to smoke it! I am from > > russia and it seems so exotic for me! I have not seen it > > before "in the real time", just in movies, so I don't know > > how to put tobacco in it, how much tobacco shall I put and > > so on. Can you help me? > > > > Best regards > > > > Mila