How do you say "wardrobe" (furniture)?


I know 洋{よう}服{ふく}箪{だん}笥{す}, 衣{い}装{しょう}箪{だん}笥{す} and ワードローブ, but I've never
seen them used and I don't know what the difference between them is.

I mean a typical wardrobe with doors (like the one from "The chronicles of
Narnia").




I don't think there are strict distinctions, at least in the ordinary
language, but the word you are looking for should be クローゼット.

For example, [IKEA](https://www.ikea.com/jp/ja/cat/storage-organisation-
st001/) has the following categorization. タンス for chests and ワードローブ・クローゼット for
the ones with 'a door'. You can use ワードローブ, too, but I feel it is less common.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8kCvB.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8kCvB.png)

* * *

More precisely, you can actually use タンス, too. I suppose タンス covers the two
categories above, but クローゼット should be usually the ones with doors (or a
separate storage room for clothes).

The door type is called
[観音開{かんのんびら}き](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A6%B3%E9%9F%B3%E9%96%8B%E3%81%8D).
So 観音開きの箪笥 could be used, but normally people are not that specific and タンス
may be too generic. Hence クローゼット could be better (though the ambiguity with
storage room remains). Probably ワードローブ doesn't have this ambiguity. (Again, I
don't think people use these words so carefully.)




I don't think there are strict distinctions, at least in the ordinary
language, but the word you are looking for should be クローゼット.

For example, [IKEA](https://www.ikea.com/jp/ja/cat/storage-organisation-
st001/) has the following categorization. タンス for chests and ワードローブ・クローゼット for
the ones with 'a door'. You can use ワードローブ, too, but I feel it is less common.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8kCvB.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8kCvB.png)

* * *

More precisely, you can actually use タンス, too. I suppose タンス covers the two
categories above, but クローゼット should be usually the ones with doors (or a
separate storage room for clothes).

The door type is called
[観音開{かんのんびら}き](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A6%B3%E9%9F%B3%E9%96%8B%E3%81%8D).
So 観音開きの箪笥 could be used, but normally people are not that specific and タンス
may be too generic. Hence クローゼット could be better (though the ambiguity with
storage room remains). Probably ワードローブ doesn't have this ambiguity. (Again, I
don't think people use these words so carefully.)

