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FUTON DANSU
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86036 - Early Meyi era

Sturdy 2-piece stacking style and usually a few compartments of drawers inside of the bottom chest.

Almost every family had one of these futon cabinets in the old days for storage their futon. Japanese people don't sleep in a bed as we do but on a futon on the ground on a kind of mat called tatami. Because of very limited space in the houses, they usually fold these during daytime. The size of the futons explains why the futon cabinet is usually quite deep. Often there are some hidden compartments inside the cabinet where the people kept the family precious.

 The hinoki wood is a Japanese cypress while the drawers are in Keyaki wood, which comes from the Zelkova tree.