Antique Japanese Kitchen Choba Tansu Meiji Era c1880's Hinoki Sugi Chest 62" Tsutsugaki The hand crafted decorations are

The hand crafted decorations are of geese in flight over various flowers on a blue-green background

This exquisite piece of antique 100+ year old Japanese indigo hand woven cotton features an artist signed central mon (family crest) design created using the traditional tsutsugaki dyeing technique

The sheath is made of lighter alloys and decorated with a gold dragon and other traditional motifs

This allows it to have a thinner blade that cuts more efficiently and leaves a narrower kerf (cut width)

This unusually large vintage Japanese carving (mid-late 20th century) was created by the indigenous Ainu people now mainly on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido

Antique Japanese Kitchen Choba Tansu Meiji Era c1880's Hinoki Sugi Chest 62" Tsutsugaki The hand crafted decorations areThis is a beauty with a natural wood finish. This mid Meiji era c1880's Chobadansu or document chest has all the original ten drawers (including two behind the safe) and two cabinet spaces behind sliding doors. The whole chest is divided into two sections making it very versatile (38. 5"H + 24"H). Much of the front is Hinoki or Japanese cypress. The interior is all Sugi Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria). Hand forged iron hardware. As well as being an