organic hookah pipe reinterprets japanese tea ceremony to promote tea leaf smoking

a nicotine-free smoking experience using only tea leaves

Reinterpreting Japanese well-being, the art collective Ochill has devised the world’s first Hookah (Shisha) product based on the traditional Japanese tea ceremony. The new culturally inspired experience unites two social customs centered on social gathering and sharing — shisha smoking and tea ceremonies — to invent a new organic smoking product that replaces smoking tobacco leaves with tea leaves.

The non-nicotine pipe takes shape as a ‘Kemiru-Kojoku’ (a wooden smoking table), reimagining the elongated metal form of typical hookah pipes. Moreover, the small structure evokes traditional Japanese design elements, including delicate, geometric wood frames and translucent Shoji Screens. Within, a glass bowl holds the bubbling tea leaf water, filtered down from the tea leaf bowl resting on the top.

all images courtesy Ochill

world’s first hookah inspired by japanese tea ceremonies

Ochill is a Japanese Art Collective that reinterprets local cultural well-being and conducts co-creation and inquiry. Their recent venture draws on the natural qualities and craftsmanship of their culture to introduce the world’s first Hookah inspired by Japanese tea ceremonies, replacing cigarette and nicotine smoking with natural tea leaves. The project encourages people to get together and slow down over shared social and spiritual customs. It encapsulates the collectives ‘well-down’ philosophy promoting ‘a state in which even if you deviate from society, there is no mental burden, and you are satisfied with yourself as a natural.‘ 

Following the release of their new nicotine-free Hookah prototype, Ochill will be looking for build-to-order manufacturing from Japan and overseas. 

Ochill introduces the world’s first hookah pipe inspired by the traditional Japanese tea ceremony

the product unites two social customs: shisha smoking and japanese tea ceremonies

encouraging social gathering and relaxation

replacing nicotine smoking with natural tea leaf smoking

filtered tea leaf water bubbles

Ochill project branding

project info:

name: Kemuri-Kojoku
designer: Ochill

team: Kiruta Watarum, Daichi Isokawa,

collaborator: Akihiro Murayama (Rivvon inc.)

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edited by: ravail khan | designboom