KISERU
Many sources claim that tobacco was introduced to Japan by the Portugese in the second half of the sixteenth century, during  the reign of the second Shogun Hidetada.
The name for Japanese pipe-Kiseru may have come from the word ksher of the Khmer language of Cambodia, a country where canabis has long been cultivated and sold to merchants arriving from all corners of the world. Making the custom of smoking Kiseru probably much, much older than smoking tobacco.
At one point smoking tobacco was banned by the Shogunate but by then smoking Tobacco was so wide spread that the Shoguns decree was completelly ignored (not unusual for Japanese of the past and the present)
The kiseru was used to smoke tobacco in Japan until the Meiji Restoration (1868), when it became popular to smoke cigarettes, hence the popularity of Kiseru decreasing.
The most creative era for Kiseru was the Edo period.
They were made of many meterials, silver, bronze, iron, copper, and sometimes gold.
In general, there are two types of Kiseru:
-Nobekiseru, made of a single part.
-Rau kiseru, made of three parts,
often decorated with patterns and carvings.
The traditional Rau Kiseru consists of three parts:
1. metal bowl (gankubi)
2. metal mouth piece (suikuchi)
3. hollow bamboo stem  (rau) 

Some Japanese claim that kiseru was also used for smoking canabis and opium, and although opium never made it as big in Japan as in China, the evidence for canabis is as clear and visible in Japanese culture as Shinto shrines, going back to its very roots, highly praised by ancient Zen poets, Samurais and people from all walks of life.

Basho, Haiku Master writes:
 

The cannabis- How wonderful it is!
The summer drawing room.
Trees and stones, just as they are.
Ah, how glorious!
The young leaves, the green leaves,
Glittering in the sunshine!