Other than using thick iron hardware incorporating a four diamonds motif cut into the drawer handle back plates, ogi-dansu often evidence ships' cabinet joinery, atypical of other tansu not crafted on the Japan Sea coast.
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Diaries from a trade delegation to Edo from the Dutch East India settlement on Dejima Island, Nagasaki in March 1657, refer to "big chests on four wheels" that so blocked the roads, people could not escape.
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In that this style of double door, two section tansu for clothing was already popular in Edo, the limitation to only an unlacquered finish may not have been thought excessive.
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Matsumoku began in Matsumoto, Japan, as a family owned woodworking business that specialized in building tansu and butsudan.