TOBACCO AND SALT MUSEUM 1-16-8 Jinnan Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0041 tel: +81 (3) 3476-2041;fax: +81 3 3476-5692 internet: www.jtnet.ad.jp/WWW/JT/Culture/museum/Welcome.html
		•The World of Miniature April 28 - July 8, 2001
		•Ukiyo-e in the Middle of 19th Century: The Director's World of Ukiyo-e Prints September 15 - October 21, 2001
		•The Route of Tobacco Ongoing
			The exhibit traces the history of tobacco from its origin in Latin America, and shows how smoking habits spread throughout the world by exhibiting smoking articles and cigarette packages. The successive forms of European pipes, the long and slender kiseru-style pipes used in Japan and other East Asian nations, and the hookahsand other related water-pipes of the Near East are all examples of notable variations upon the essential theme of tobacco consumption.
		•Japanese Tobacco Ongoing
			The exhibit displays the old-fashioned kizami (kiserutobacco) and the kiseru (Japanese pipe) and also shows the changes in the Japanese tobacco industry from the private sector in old days to a governmental enterprise. The characteristic Japanese method of smoking finely-minced tobacco in the long-stemmed, thimble-bowled pipes known as kiseruis believed to date from the end of the tobacco ban in the 17th century. This custom of using finely-shred tobacco was to prove of significance in the history of Japanese technology, for the original hand-shredding process was soon supplemented by a variety of mechanical techniques, that stimulated the early development of quality, mass-production machinery in Japan. In addition, the decorative possibilities of smoking paraphernalia opened up new fields for the creative energies of craftsmen in numerous areas of applied art.
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