Vintage Japanese Ranma Crane of Happiness & Pines Carved Transom Sugi Wood 68" Music This tansu is made with

This tansu is made with pegged-tenon open-mortise corner box joint construction

This chisel is made of a hand-forged lamination of white steel and wrought iron

1596-1868) tsuba (handguard) for a Katana or Wakazashi

watercolor-like rendering captures both the heat and the focused physicality of the craft — a tradition already beginning to recede before the war's disruptions

Perfect size to be used as an end table or stand for large decorative object such as a vase

Vintage Japanese Ranma Crane of Happiness & Pines Carved Transom Sugi Wood 68" Music This tansu is made withThe Japanese Ranma is a decorative and functional carving used above a door way to allow airflow and light to pass though. They are exquisitely hand carved from sugi Japanese cedar. A typical ranma may be from 1 2" thick to 1 1 2" thick. These two are unusual in that the single pieces of wood carving extends beyond the boundaries of the edges in all directions in amazing detail. It is approximately 68" x 13. 5" x 1. 5" and weighs in at about 10lbs