Vintage Japanese Mizuya Kitchen Tansu

Kitchen chests, which developed in the later Edo period, were another sign of rising prosperity and the refined cooking and dining practices that accompanied it. Substantial pieces, they have large, roomy interiors and sections covered with wire, like Western pie cupboards. Unlike other tansu, mizuya-dansu don’t have much hardware at all. This chest is likely the top of a two part kitchen tansu.