Yoshino Japanese Antiques offers a variety of art, antiques and mingei, folk craft: Tansu (chests) that come from many area of Japan, including: Niigata, Kansai, Kyoto, Tokyo, Osaka, Yonezawa, Sendai, Nihonmatsu and Tohoku. The types of tansu available include isho-dansu (clothing chests), kaidan (staircase chests), mizuya tansu (kitchen chests), cho-dansu (merchant chests), funa-dansu (sea chests), cha-n-oma dansu (tea room chests), sho-dansu (document chests) and choba-dansu (merchant ledger chests). These chests are made from various woods including Keyaki (Zelkova - Japanese Elm), Kuri (Chestnut), Hinoki (Cypress), Sugi (Japanese Cedar), and Kiri (Paulownia). We offer interior and exterior architectural pieces, including: ramma (carved wooden transoms), fusuma (painted sliding doors), shoji, yoshido (reed doors), kurado (warehouse doors). We also have a selection of kakejiku (scrolls) and byobu (screen paintings); ukiyo-e and shin-hanga wood block prints; okimono  (ivory, metal, or wood statues and sculptures); pottery from Bizen, Echizen, and Mino/Seto; porcelain (Imari, Satsuma, blue-and-white, and Arita); lacquer ware; netsuke and other sagemono; wood, ceramic and metal hibachi; and textiles such as obi, kimono, uchikake (wedding kimono), haori (short jackets), furoshiki (gift wrapping cloths), futon-ji (futon covers), yogi (bedding coats), tsutsugaki (paste-resist dyed textile), shibori (tye-dyed textiles), and kasuri (thread-resist dyed textiles).  We also sell katana (swords) as well as tsuba (sword guards) and other sword fittings.