This large and rich Japanese display/tea cabinet on stand is elegance created in the subtle manner of scholar’s taste pieces. It was crafted with top tier of Rosewoods and utilized single piece, beveled floated panels on all doors and drawers. These techniques not only add general richness, but are primarily used by the better furniture makers to prevent cracking as the wood breathes. The overall façade has a fine and subtle beading surrounding all major elements. All these details are great indicators of the highest craftsmanship and taste. Of particular historical interest is that Japan itself is not a land of Rosewood. This material would’ve been imported from Southeast Asia or China (although rosewoods are not indigenous to China either, they still used them extensively in their furniture making for centuries). Basically all of this importation of larger pieces of rosewood would, with the greatest likelihood, have occurred after the Perry visit in 1854. One can fairly confidently consider Japanese furniture made with large pieces of rosewood to be made at their earliest during the Meiji Period (1868-1911).