Invoice — Records Wall, Floor 14
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
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.