kiseru
Sign in to savethumb|Kiseru smoking pipe, before 1894, from the Oxford College Archives of Emory UniversityA is a Japanese smoking pipe, traditionally used for smoking kizami, a finely shredded tobacco product resembling hair.
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thumb|Kiseru smoking pipe, before 1894, from the Oxford College Archives of Emory UniversityA is a Japanese smoking pipe, traditionally used for smoking kizami, a finely shredded tobacco product resembling hair.
== History == The word kiseru is said to have originated from the Khmer word khsier around the 16th century, while it is also said that the word originated from the Portuguese ("which is drawn").