Sense of Peace has a range of quality asian style furniture including Japanese step Tansu furniture. The Japanese lifestyle has traditionally been one without furniture, in the Western sense. The outsider is surprised to find in the pure Japanese room nothing more than some floor cushions and an occasional chest.

Traditional furniture design was strongly influenced by architectural considerations. Architecture was basically in harmony with the natural environment.

Originally purely utilitarian, furniture developed from storage boxes. Merchants and farmers grew more prosperous during the Edo period (1603 - 1868), and by the beginning of the nineteenth century demand for real furniture had increased considerably. No longer would traditional storage boxes suffice. Instead, specialized chests called tansu were crafted according to their function: handsome, massive mizuya (kitchen chests); charming multidrawered kusuri tansu (medicine chests); fude tansu (writing chests) and funa tansu (sea chests), heavily weighted to keep from rolling on the high seas. All made by highly skilled craftsmen and elegant testimonials to the skill and materials of the past, these traditional pieces of furniture bring dignity and meaning to their surroundings.

Please visit our store in Half Moon Bay to view our quality collection of Asian style furniture, or shop with us online in 2004.