Choba Dansu (Merchant Tansu Chest)

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Choba Dansu Front

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Choba Dansu door detail

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A merchant chest (Choba Dansu) type of tansu. Designed from tansu layout proportions.  34"x34"x13"

Canarywood drawer fronts and doors bookmatched and cut from a single 8' 8/4 plank.  Doors use a hidden breadboard to keep them stable.  Recessed kickboard is also a hidden drawer. Hardware from a combination of sources including Hida Tool and antique hardware on eBay. 

The first tansu I've attempted, the hardware ended up being the biggest obstacle.  Finding a matching set of hinges, bracket and pulls outside of Japan was a real challenge.  I was able to piece together a set that 'went' rather than perfectly matched hrough a combination of different sources.

It seemed like hardware was always the main emphasis for tansu and I thought using canarywood, definitely not a tradtional material, would bring the woodwork back to the main emphasis. 

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mokusakusensei writes: Nice job! I lived in Japan for awhile and my experience was that the hardware seemed to always over power the cabinet.
Posted: 11:57 am on January 15th

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