日本パイプクラブ連盟とは
HISTORY
The Japan Pipe Smokers’ Club (JPSC), one of the Tokyo-based clubs, held Japan’s first pipe smoking contest in that city in 1972. The event inspired pipe lovers in Japan, and led to the creation of more pipe clubs and pipe smoking contests across the country. In 1974, 15 such pipe smoker clubs got together and established a federation named “The Pipe Club of Japan (PCJ).” As of May 28, 2011, the PCJ has more than doubled its size; it now consists of 31 member clubs with about 440 active members, and the number of new members is expected to grow.
Since then, the PCJ has actively participated in the World Championship every four years while simultaneously cultivating mutual friendship with the other 26 CIPC member countries, among them France, Denmark. Russia, USA and China. The PCJ also makes an effort to propagate the custom of pipe smoking in Japanese society
ACTIVITIES
In 1976, the PCJ hosted the Third World Championship of Pipe Smoking, and in 1990, it hosted The Seventh World Championship of Pipe Smoking; both events took place in Tokyo.
On the home front, the PCJ has held its All-Japan Pipe Smoking Championship every year for the past 37 years in various cities. The latest event, the 37th, took place on November 14, 2010 at the Hotel Maroudo Tukuba in Tsuchiura-city, Ibaragi Prefecture.
The 38th contest will be on September 18, 2011, at the Kanamori-Hall in Hakodate-city, Hokkaido Prefecture.
The next year, PCJ will hold The 39th contest in Kagoshima-city, Kagoshima Prefecture. And then The 40 th anniversary contest will be held in Tokyo.
One of the PCJ missions is to promote friendship and cooperation among pipe clubs throughout the country. The annual All-Japan Pipe Smoking Championship is an important PCJ activity that fulfills this mission. Additionally, the PCJ offers beginner pipe-smoking lessons at the All-Japan Pipe Smoking Championship to promote the pipe-smoking culture. Often, in conjunction with this national competition, the PCJ may host a pipe show, an exhibition in which various pipes and pipe-smoking-related utensils are displayed and sold.
At the All-Japan Championship in the year preceding the quadrennial World Championship, the winner becomes the ‘expenses-paid' PCJ representative to the World Championship.
The Club’s latest project is to publish All About Pipes (3rd edition), a book commemorating the 35th anniversary of PCJ. It was released on May 2009.
ALL-JAPAN CHAMPIONSHIP RECORDS
| 順位 | 名前 | クラブ名 | タイム |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yutaka Takaoka | Kagoshima Pipe Club | 185min. 27s (13th Contest) |
| 2 | Seiichi Kiuchi | Tokushima Pipe Club | 149min. 16s (12th Contest) |
| 3 | Kaworu Hayashi | Tokai Pipe Club (Nagoya) | 145min. 20s (11th Contest) |
| 順位 | 名前 | クラブ名 | タイム |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hiroko Kotaki | Sumidagawa Pipe Club (Tokyo) | 115min. 26s (25th Contest) |
| 2 | Hatsue Yano | Pacific Pipe Smokers’ Club (Kanagawa) | 106min. 14s (35th Contest) |
| 3 | Hisako Hayashi | Tokai Pipe Club (Nagoya) | 105min. 23s (19th Contest) |
| 順位 | クラブ名 | タイム |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Silver Pipe Club (Tokyo) | 363min. 12s (5th Contest) |
| 2 | Okayama Pipe Club | 348min. 33s (31st Contest) |
| 3 | Okayama Pipe Club | 344min. 27s (32nd Contest) |
(The current [2008] World Record holder is Gianfranco Ruscalla of Italy with a time of 213min. 6s.)
For more details on all the PCJ activities and pipe smoking information in Japanese, visit our Web site at http://www.pipeclub-jpn.org.
