Character Design Ancient Japan

Justin gave us a time period and got us to look at furniture, weapons,shapes and think about the characters associated with these items.

I ended up with an evil ancient Japanese looking storage hiding very easily reachable weapons and a protagonist looking one like a shrine. and peaceful. 

I noticed that these items are very artistic, decorative,elegant,Curves,swft,straight lines.

I noticed a lot of symmetry.

I looked at the art they have but thats almost an illustration in itself already.