kiseru; Japanese smoking pipe
A traditional Japanese smoking pipe with a small metal bowl and a long stem, used for finely shredded tobacco.
My grandfather used to smoke tobacco with a kiseru.
fire tube (of a fire-tube boiler)
Technical term in boiler engineering; refers to the tubes through which hot gases pass to heat water.
In a fire-tube boiler, hot gases pass through the fire tubes.
Rare or archaic use; modern Japanese normally uses 煙突 (えんとつ) for chimney.
In old documents, 煙管 is sometimes used to mean chimney.
fire-tube boiler
Standard kanji spelling for all senses.
Variant kanji form using 烟 instead of 煙; less common in modern Japanese.
Compound of 煙 (smoke) and 管 (pipe/tube). The reading えんかん is the on'yomi for both kanji. The word originally referred to a pipe for smoke, later extended to boiler tubes and chimneys.