Judging from the questions I receive, finding enough storage space ranks as the No. 1 issue bedeviling readers of this column. I guess it's partly because homes are designed differently today than ...

Suddenly production was pushed ahead to supply Tokyo with isho-tansu [clothing chests] and cho-tansu [merchant chests],' says Lucille. ... Almost all Japanese chests had special handles.

Japanese stair tansu offers a solution for storage woes . Updated: ; Nov. 12, 2009, 9:44 p.m. | Published: Published: ...

JAPANESE CABINETRY: The Art and Craft of Tansu David Jackson, Dane Owen, . . Gibbs Smith, $75 (256pp) ISBN 978-1-58685-113-2 ...