Antique Japanese Document Tansu Meiji Era c1890's Sugi Wood Tansu Chest 57” Tea Accessories and paper documentation

and paper documentation

It is crafted in the Korean style and is bent into a spout

signed with red seal

5 cm) tall and 3 1/2" at the widest (9 cm)

The outer wall carries two registers of circular reticulated piercing at the shoulder and lower body

Antique Japanese Document Tansu Meiji Era c1890's Sugi Wood Tansu Chest 57” Tea Accessories and paper documentationKnown as a chobadansu (document tansu chest), this chest was made in the 19th century Meiji era (1868 1912). Made in two pieces of all sugi (cryptomeria) or Japanese cedar both face and interior. The choba dansu was a special chest used to store document, accounts, money and other valuables for a business enterprise. This chest has a very unique configuration of 9 drawers (2 located behind the armored safe door) and 2 cabinets accessed behind sliding