Tansu linen chest of drawers, japan, wabi sabi style, early nineteenth

This japanese linen chest of drawers dates from the first half of the nineteenth century - eiith combines power and stripping and discreet oriental influence. The craftsman sought the balance between wood and sober fittings. Very worn, scratched, shocks, oxidation of fittings, stains. It thus has the "wabi sabi" aspect dear to the japanese: it is a spiritual and aesthetic concept, derived from zen buddhist principles. "wabi" means, simplicity, melancholy, nature - "sabi" is the alteration of time, the taste of aged things, the patina of objects. Wabi refers to modesty in the face of natural phenomena, and sabi, the sensation in the face of things in which we can detect the work of time or men. The gate in the lower right part, reveals two drawers. The gate closes with a wooden tab, added. The keys are lost.