The box chest is an oblong wooden box with a lid that opens upward, used for storing clothes and bedclothes. Among these, the ones with wheels to make it easy to move around are called wheeled chests. Chests with drawers require more than double the materials and time to make. Ordinary people in the Edo period could not own expensive chests with drawers, therefore, large chests were widely used for storing valuables.
[Archived at Ibaraki Prefectural Archives and Museums]