An antique Japanese Choba Tansu (merchant chest) made of a rare Keyaki root burl (Zelkova Tamo), Kirinoki (Paulownia), and Suginoki (Cryptomeria) woods. All original hardware including Gumbai drawer pulls and sliding door handles featuring a gold inlay flying dragon amongst the sea and clouds. Multiple merchant drawers are hidden behind the sliding doors with an open space storage area where merchant books and records were stored.

The sliding doors ingeniously hide a secret set of drawers. Once the doors are removed, a center wooden bar is exposed. The bar lifts up and off revealing two drawers where merchant valuable were kept.

Age: Early Meiji Period (1868-1885)

Dimensions: 26 1/2" Wide by 26" High by 16 1/2" Deep