Japanese Tansu Chest - Showa Era Ganesh Statues religious buildings

religious buildings

141 x 44 x 78 (wxdxh cms)

Hand-carved from a solid piece of teak

Our vintage galvanized iron buckets are over 50 years old and mostly date to the 1950's

Japanese Tansu Chest - Showa Era Ganesh Statues religious buildingsThis Showa era (1926 1989) Japanese tansu chest of drawers is a great and iconic piece of storage. The front is veneered red elm (keyaki wood) with Sendai style iron hardware lock plates and cast iron handles. The shape of this tansu is unusual and was likely a custom production for a customer. Chests of this type were usually for storing clothes and were called isho dansu. The exterior is lacquered and the interior plain wood. Sendai was well