Yoshino
Yoshino Shashinki-ten
Yoshino Shashinki-ten (吉野写真機店) was a Japanese camera shop based in Tokyo, Higashi Ryōgoku in 1930–2.[1]
Advertisement by Yoshino Shashinki-ten in Asahi Camera February 1930 (left) and June 1932 (right). (Image rights) |
Yoshino Shōkai
Advertisement by Yoshino Shōkai in Shashin Salon January 1934. (Image rights) |
Yoshino Shōkai (吉野商会) was a Japanese company based in Hiroshima, Onagamachi in 1934.[2] It was making a patented exposure meter, certainly of the extinction type.
Yoshino Kōgaku
Yoshino Kōgaku (吉野光学) was a Japanese company based in Tokyo, Arakawa in 1943.[3] It is listed in the April 1943 government inquiry as the maker of some lenses mounted on cameras distributed by Misuzu Shōkai.
Lens list:
- Midget 20/4.5, three elements, mounted on the New Midget II[4]
- Jilona or Jilonar (ジロナー) 75/3.5, three elements, mounted on the Semi Lead[5]
Notes
- ↑ The exact address in 1930 was Honjo-ku Higashi Ryōgoku 2 Kokugikan-mae (本所区東両国二丁目国技館前). Source: advertisement in Asahi Camera February 1930, p.A22.
- ↑ The address was Hiroshima-shi Onagamachi 6 (広島市尾長町六). Source: advertisement in Shashin Salon January 1934.
- ↑ Its address in 1943 was Tōkyō-to Arakawa-ku Mikawashima-chō (東京都荒川区三河島町) 8–1663. Source: "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras").
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), lens item I2.
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), lens item Lb3.
Bibliography
- Asahi Camera. Advertisements by Yoshino Shashinki-ten in February 1930 (p.A22) and June 1932 (p.A28).
- "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" (国産写真機ノ現状調査, Inquiry into Japanese cameras), listing Japanese camera production as of April 1943. Reproduced in Supuringu kamera de ikou: Zen 69 kishu no shōkai to tsukaikata (スプリングカメラでいこう: 全69機種の紹介と使い方, Let's try spring cameras: Presentation and use of 69 machines). Tokyo: Shashinkogyo Syuppan-sha, 2004. ISBN 4-87956-072-3. Pp.180–7.
- Shashin Salon. Advertisement by Yoshino Shōkai in January 1934. No page number.