The traditional craft cabinetry Iwayado Tansu originates in Japan's earliest furniture that dates back to about 1100. Made from carefully selected materials with the finest skill, Iwayado Tansu cabinetry has a stately yet graceful design, which will undoubtedly cause it to be handed down generation to generation as a future antique.

In 1979 at the Iwate Prefectural government's recommendation, The Iwayado Tansu Production Cooperative submitted Iwayado Tansu for accreditation in accordance with the Law Concerning the Promotion of the Traditional Craft Industries. After three years of close examination, the furniture's traditional design, materials, assembly techniques, techniques for hand-embossed hardware, and lacquering as a whole were recognized officially as traditional craftwork by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1982.