thumb|upright=1.5|Edo-period chest on chest were used by merchant class women for personal clothing storage. are traditional Japanese mobile storage cabinets. are commonly used for the storage of clothing, particularly kimono.
thumb|upright=1.5|Edo-period chest on chest were used by merchant class women for personal clothing storage. are traditional Japanese mobile storage cabinets. are commonly used for the storage of clothing, particularly kimono.
were first recorded in the Genroku era (1688–1704) of the Edo period (1603–1867). The two characters, and , appear to have initially represented objects with separate functions: the storage of food and the carrying of firewood. Since the radical for appears in each of these characters, it may be surmised that bamboo, and not wood, was the original material used in .
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).