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In an interesting twist of fate, the supervising professor for that final art school project was a childhood friend of Kyozaburo (Sab) Tsuge's wife. A couple of years after she finished art school she was contacted by this professor because of the similarity in underlying idea between her final project and pipe making: both in wood and both highly tactile as well as visual. It didn't go anywhere for a little while, but when Kikuchi received an order for a number of her small wooden sculptures and needed access to a workshop to make them, she reached out to Tsuge and he offered her use of the Tsuge workshop in Asakusa after hours. And from there, she fell in love with the process of pipe making. It was as if she'd always wanted to make pipes, but waiting to discover that handmade pipes existed. It was the perfect fit for the sort of work she had always wanted to do. | In an interesting twist of fate, the supervising professor for that final art school project was a childhood friend of Kyozaburo (Sab) Tsuge's wife. A couple of years after she finished art school she was contacted by this professor because of the similarity in underlying idea between her final project and pipe making: both in wood and both highly tactile as well as visual. It didn't go anywhere for a little while, but when Kikuchi received an order for a number of her small wooden sculptures and needed access to a workshop to make them, she reached out to Tsuge and he offered her use of the Tsuge workshop in Asakusa after hours. And from there, she fell in love with the process of pipe making. It was as if she'd always wanted to make pipes, but waiting to discover that handmade pipes existed. It was the perfect fit for the sort of work she had always wanted to do. | ||
<center><gallery caption="Ikebana workshop, Sep. 2014, Fukuda-san and Ms. Kikuchi, Courtesy J Rex Poggenpohl" | <center><gallery widths=400px heights=300px caption="Ikebana workshop, Sep. 2014, Fukuda-san and Ms. Kikuchi, Courtesy J Rex Poggenpohl"> | ||
File:TsugeIkebana Fukuda-san&Ms. Kikuchi.jpg | File:TsugeIkebana Fukuda-san&Ms. Kikuchi.jpg | ||
File:TsugeIkebana Fukuda-san&Ms. Kikuchi2.jpg | File:TsugeIkebana Fukuda-san&Ms. Kikuchi2.jpg | ||