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=== Tsuge Ikebana's New Pipemaker === | === Tsuge Ikebana's New Pipemaker === | ||
[[File:Kikuchi.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Asami Kikuchi]]In November of 2013, a new and exciting pipe maker was announced as Fukuda's heir apparent. The following article by Sykes Wilford appears courtesy of [http://www.smokingpipes.com/blog/index.cfm#Kikuchi smokingpipes.com] | [[File:Kikuchi.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Asami Kikuchi]][[File:AsamiKikuchiz bentegg.jpg|thumb|300px|Ikebana, by Asami Kikuchi, courtesy [http://www.smokingpipes.com/ smokingpipes.com]]]In November of 2013, a new and exciting pipe maker was announced as Fukuda's heir apparent. The following article by Sykes Wilford appears courtesy of [http://www.smokingpipes.com/blog/index.cfm#Kikuchi smokingpipes.com] | ||
As a woman in her late 20s, Asami Kikuchi is something of a rarity in pipe making. Indeed, she's even more of a rarity in Japanese pipe making. There are just a handful of female high-grade pipe makers in the world and all of them, save Kikuchi, have been either the daughter or the spouse of a pipe maker. Kikuchi's path has been unusual, a serendipitous road to a career she never thought existed, let alone longed for, a few years ago. | As a woman in her late 20s, Asami Kikuchi is something of a rarity in pipe making. Indeed, she's even more of a rarity in Japanese pipe making. There are just a handful of female high-grade pipe makers in the world and all of them, save Kikuchi, have been either the daughter or the spouse of a pipe maker. Kikuchi's path has been unusual, a serendipitous road to a career she never thought existed, let alone longed for, a few years ago. | ||