The Sendai Tansu (a chest of drawers) 仙台箪笥 aks Samurai Tansu

Samurai Drawers. It is said that Shogun Date Masamune developed this Sendai Tansu. So What is all about The Sendai Tansu (a chest of drawers) style originated at the end of the Edo period (16031868). It is said that a master carpenter, Umemura Hikozaemon, was the creator of Sendai Tansu when he worked for Date Masamune (The first lord of the Sendai domain). Date Masamune wanted a solid and stately Tansu chest for the main enclosure of the Sendai castle which he had built, and Umemura Hikozaemon was chos