Tag implication: medicine_box -> box

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-1, while they may look like boxes, these "medicine boxes" are actually portable furniture and closer to a chest of drawers than a "box." Here are two examples from Mushishi S1: Showing the drawers and showing the door. Also after digging around more these things in general are called Tansu (Wikipedia Link), but more specifically are called Gyosho Bako, or a Peddler's Chest/box (google books link). Even more specifically what these characters have is likely referred to as "Kusuri-dansu" or a Medicine Chest (or Apothecary's Chest) which contains a lot of small drawers in it to carry medicines and small instruments. Given all that, so while the current depictions may qualify for the box tag because of their outward appearance, once their interior is depicted they would likely not get the box tag because visually they'd appear as furniture instead of as a box. If the ones that are closed qualify for the box tag, then it is something that would have to be manually added, and not something that is automatic given what they would appear like when opened.

An example of a Peddler's Chest: http://shibui.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/T-0944_01_Japanese-Antique-Peddler-Chest-Tansu.jpg

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