たんす (tansu)

昨日きのう、たんすを 買かいました。

I bought a chest of drawers yesterday.

タンスで 探さがしていた 物ものが 見 つかった。

I found what I was looking for in the drawers.

代表作に而妙斎好・吉祥松溜雪吹・春野旅箪笥など。

Her representative works include Jinyosaiko, Kichijomatsudamarifubuki, and Harunotabitansu.

なお、神棚が作れない場合は、箪笥などの上を利用して作られることもある。

When kamidana cannot be built, it is sometimes built using the top of tansu (chest of drawers).

川辺地方では、見かけは箪笥で扉を開くと金色さんぜんとした、隠し仏壇が作られた（東本願寺鹿児島別院に保存）。

There were hidden Buddhist altars created in the Kawabe region that looked like chests of drawers (stored in Kagoshima Betsu-in, Higashi Hongan-ji Temple).

本棚、クローゼット、箪笥、食器棚、ロッカー、多目的棚等の箱型収納用家具（以下箱型家具という）の耐震構造を安価で容易な加工で行え、かつ住宅そのものに傷をつけずにスペースの有効利用を目的とする。

To build an aseismic structure of a box type furniture for storage (thereafter called as box type furniture) such as book shelves, closets, chests of drawers, cupboards, lockers and multipurpose racks by inexpensive and easier working while achieving effective utilization of spaces without damaging dwellings.「

嫁入り道具、行器、長持犬張子、小袖箪笥の幾さおも、命ながらへ居るならば、一世一度の送り物、五丁七丁続く程」の華やかにも悲しい床の浄瑠璃に合わせ、定高は雛鳥の首を雛人形とともに川に流し大判事に受け取らせる。

Sadaka floats the head of Hinagiku with Hina-ningyo (dolls and miniature instruments displayed at the Girls' Festival) in the river to send it to Daihanji, while gorgeous yet sad Joruri (dramatic narrative chanted to a shamisen accompaniment) is played on the musicians' stage; it chants, 'marriage furniture, food box, container, papier-mache dog, and many chests (these are all the instruments included in Hina-ningyo). If she was alive, they would have been real presents once in life, lined up for five or seven cho (distance unit; a cho is about 109 m).'

江戸時代の行商は、天秤棒を担いだ業態では棒手売とも呼ばれ、扱われる商品は魚介類（シジミやアサリのような貝も）から豆腐・飴といった食品のほか薬など生活物資、アサガオやキンギョ・風鈴といった生活に潤いを与える物品もあれば、大きな箪笥などの家具を扱う業態も存在し、果ては水を行商する者もいた。

Peddlers were also called bote-uri derived from their sales method to carry a yoke, and they sold seafood (including shellfish such as corbicula clams and asari clams), food (including tofu and candies), everyday goods (such as medicine), goods enriching people's lives (such as asagao (morning glory), goldfish, and wind chimes), furniture (including big chests) and water.