時代箪笥／佐渡船箪笥【FUNADANSU - sea chest】 [j1140]Japanese Antique Furniture

佐渡小木地域で作られた稀少な帳箱形の船箪笥です。

下部の戸は両開きの観音扉に見えますが、右は片開、左は右を開けた後にスライドさせる仕組みです。この様な片開の仕様は江戸期から明治初期の船箪笥に見られますが、左側が框造りになっている事が多く、観音開きに見せている物は少なく思います。

本体は堅牢な欅材を使用し、重厚な錺金具が正面を飾ります。金具もこの地方の同時代に見られる透かし模様で厚みのある鉄板を鏨で切り取り丁寧に面取りされ仕上げられています。菊花をモチーフにしたそれらの錺金具は重厚な躯体に気高さを感じさせます。

This is a rare type ship chest made in the Sado Ogi region.

The bottom door appears to be a double-opening door, but the right side opens single-door and the left side slides to right to open after the right side has been opened. This type can be seen in ship chests from the Edo period to the early Meiji period, and few of them are made to look like a Kannon (double-opening) door.

The body is made of robust zelkova wood and the front is decorated with massive metal ornaments. The metal fittings are cut out of a thick iron plate with a chisel in the openwork pattern seen in the same period in this region, and are carefully chamfered and finished. These metal ornaments with chrysanthemum motifs give a sense of nobility to the massive as a safebox.