Black Lacquered Sakata Isho Dansu | Clothing Chest Tansu | Japanese Antique Furniture with Iron Hardware

Beautiful Japanese antique furniture. Bo isho dansu (locking-bar clothing chest). Chests like this were often given to the bride for use in her new home.  This chest is unusual in it's configuration: three drawers in the top section make it taller than most chests from the region. The opaque lacquer and family crest indicate this was a samurai-class chest from Sakata City area in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. The cabinetry is finger-joined Kiri. Drawers are rabbeted and pegged. Hand forged iron distinctive to chests of the Sakata area. Warabite (bracken hand, imitating the curled-up young fern) style handles with embossed and chased escutcheons and jamb plates. Kiri - Paulownia Sugi - Japanese Cedar  Tame-nuri (opaque lacquer) Hand forged iron Late 19th Century 34.5" x 17.5" x 39.25" (length, depth, height) Conserved by Shibui for the Northern American climate. *Shipping charge (shown at purchase) is the maximum amount you would be charged for each product. If we are able to optimiz