Japanese Choba Dansu - Late Meiji Era Trays or other household provisions

or other household provisions

They were likely used for clothes and utensil storage by servants

Designed with three small arched recesses

87 x 60 x 65 (wxdxh cms)

and captures the timeless elegance of Mughal-influenced design with its bone inlay patterns

Japanese Choba Dansu - Late Meiji Era Trays or other household provisionsThis Japanese tansu chest is a choba dansu (or cho dansu) merchant chest dates from the late Meiji era (1868 1912). Cho dansu were used by merchants in shops for storing ledgers, money, and seals. The style of this tansu chest suggests it came from further north, nearer to Sakata. This piece has one long drawer at the top and six additional smaller drawers (two behind a lockable box). Two sliding doors conceal a large interior space with a single