There's even a term for this hidden money in Japanese, "tansu yokin.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Fashion a kind of tansu chest under the stairs with Billy bookcases with doors or baskets to keep yourself organized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference

Still others get a Japanese tansu or a famous name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

Behind a step tansu, black as night, Chika had said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Blade]

And Evil E-- how about a Molly mystery with a tansu?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Publishing Is So Japanese] Reference

An eighteenth-century lacquer writing box lay on top of the tansu.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Ninja]

Above the tansu, the calligraphy scroll seemed to float on the stone wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Ninja]

He went through Kyoki's desk, through another tansu in this part of the chamber.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Ninja]

We went to pick up a tansu chest that replaces the dressers we had in our bedroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farmer’s market, yardsales and a movie] Reference

A dark wood tansu chest stood against one wall, stark and majestic, surrounded by space.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Ninja]

Pressing it moved the tansu aside, and he saw the door inscribed with the double phoenixes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Blade]

He went across the antiseptic black-and-white tile floor to the step tansu, black as night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Blade]

Still, he lit one of the candles he found inside the tansu so that he could examine the inside of the vase.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Ninja]

She moved to the tansu, sliding open a center panel, and then a false back panel, to expose a safe in the wall behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of fear]

'My mother took me to the very top of Forbidden Dreams, through a door inscribed with double phoenixes hidden behind a step-tansu as black as night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Blade]

May o-sono by the tansu music and flowers its music time look at me girl poor sad kitten bad salad made my lunchtime sad chisato moritaka singing 17 才.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tubbypaws] Reference

Nicholas placed the candle in a stone holder on top of the tansu, bent to examine the chest's interior for any sign of a false bottom or compartment wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Ninja]

In the late 1990s, widespread fears about bank stability thanks to a nationwide financial crisis triggered a rush to convert assets to tansu yokin ( "drawer deposits").    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Futon] Reference

Auctions: A chance to step into the world of tansu.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Azad for more public funding in healthcare] Reference

But she came back the next night, and looked at the tansu as before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things] Reference

Her face had a wistful look; and she kept her eyes fixed upon the tansu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things] Reference

One customer arranged them in a stepped configuration, like a Japanese tansu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference

My designer friend suggested making a foyer using a tansu to separate the area off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference

He said: "There must be something about which she is anxious, in or near that tansu.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things] Reference

Perhaps in that tansu there is something about which you have reason to feel anxious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things] Reference

Desk items are kept in the traditional tansu and army officer's box underneath the desk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference

"But we emptied all the drawers," replied the woman; -- "there is nothing in the tansu.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things] Reference

So there is a murmured consultation in the neighbouring room; and tansu-drawers are unlocked, warm garments prepared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference

She appeared as if standing in front of a tansu, or chest of drawers, that still contained her ornaments and her wearing-apparel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things] Reference

The Hong Kong screen, Japanese tansu and multitude of books that breathe beauty and personality into the house reflect Carlson's life over the many years he lived in the East and abroad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

The strongest pieces are undoubtedly the modern versions of the Japanese or Korean tansu, made graphically bold with simplified versions of the distinctive, ornate metal plate hardware you see on the originals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference

We also moved the new tansu in there to use for our clothes, figuring that we’ll just pack the clothing in the tansu for the move.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bed and Breakfast at home] Reference

A sliding panel or a little door In smaller dwellings it may be put on a shelf, for want of a better place, and in the homes of the poor, on the top of the tansu, or clothes-chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference

It's a Kaidan-dansu stair tansu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stairs and storage] Reference

The link for the tansu goes to the couch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference

O-sono by the tansu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tubbypaws] Reference