TRIP TO JAPAN, October 2008 - Page 6


NAVIGATION

In Toku's Workshop

Tokyo Pipe Show

Other Photos


35th Annual All-Japan Pipe Smoking Competition and Pipe Show

Tokyo, Sunday, October 12


The Pipe Show (...concluded)

 

Shizuo Arita (Takeo's father)

 

 

I believe Arita-san calls this shape "Chestnut."  I've never seen this pipe made as a stem-stander before, but given his playfulness, he may well have done so previously.

 

 

 

One of Arita-san's most whimsical creations.  I've seen photos of this shape before, but they didn't prepare me for just how "personable" a pipe it is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A "Lava" Pipe

 

 

A free-form "Vase" that is probably the wildest pipe I've yet seen from Arita-san.

 

 

 

 

 


 

Takamitsu Ando (right) at the "L.S. Ando" table

 

 

 

(The pipes on the right are by Higuchi


NAVIGATION

In Toku's Workshop

Tokyo Pipe Show

Other Photos