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KOKUSHICORP.COM // MIRROR 03 OF 07
F-044  INVOICE — RECORDS WALL, FLOOR 14
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STATUS:   DOCUMENT IN HAND
PERIOD:   Jul 1986
ADDED:    04 Jul 2019
SHA-1:    72E04953609B
SOURCE:   https://kokushicorp.com/files/painted-wall-invoice/
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A theatre scenery company billed Kokushi for a painted wall of filing
drawers, with one hinged section, delivered to a floor that doesn't
exist.

## The invoice

Issued by a Tokyo stage-scenery workshop that built sets for television
and theatre between 1979 and 1993. Addressed to Kokushi Facilities,
delivery 14F, service lift only.

| Item | Description | Qty |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trompe-l'oeil flat, "records cabinet wall", 8 × 6 drawer units, painted, aged | 1 |
| 2 | Concealed hinged section, 2 × 3 units, flush, no visible handle | 1 |
| 3 | Edge lighting, cold white, perimeter | 1 set |
| 4 | Labels: blank, to match | 48 |

Paid in full, July 1986.

## Why it matters

[SCAN: WORKSHOP ARCHIVE · "DURABILITY TEST, FINISHED FLAT". A hand
pressed flat against the painted wall of identical drawers; light leaks
around one section.]

Sources describe Floor 14's records room as one wall of identical
drawers. Every label blank. Nobody remembers opening one.

They couldn't have. They were painted.

The hinged section is a door. I don't know where it led. The workshop's
former owner told me only that the client asked for the paint to "stand
up to a hand pressed flat against it, many times."

The workshop's ledger has a second order from the same client, for an
identical flat, in 1998. Same dimensions, same hinged section, same
blank labels. You don't rebuild a door unless someone wore the first one
out.

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