Sanwa
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Sanwa Shōkai (三和商会) was a Japanese distributor based in Tokyo.[1] It was an authorized dealer of the Condor folders between 1939 and 1942, and also inserted its own advertisements for these models[2], sometimes together with a Zeitax[3]. It also distributed the Semi Miss 4.5×6 folder at about the same time.
Sanwa Shōkai distributed the Mycro and the remaining stocks of the Auto Keef in 1946.[4]
Some sources[5] also say that it made the Baby Suzuka, but the name that appears in the advertisements for this camera is K.K. Sankō (株式会社三光).[6]
Notes
- ↑ Its address at the beginning of the 1940s was Tōkyō-shi Shiba-ku Tamura-chō 2, 15 (東京市芝區田村町二ノ十五). Source: advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp.72–3.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.72.
- ↑ Advertisement reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.73.
- ↑ Advertisement reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.132.
- ↑ McKeown, p.870, Lewis, p.75, and this page of the Asacame website.
- ↑ Advertisement reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.142. See also the advertisement reproduced in this page of the Media-Planet website.
Bibliography
- Asahi Camera (アサヒカメラ) editorial staff. Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi (昭和10–40年広告にみる国産カメラの歴史, Japanese camera history as seen in advertisements, 1935–1965). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994. ISBN 4-02-330312-7.
- Lewis, Gordon, ed. The History of the Japanese Camera. Rochester, N.Y.: George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography & Film, 1991. ISBN 0-935398-17-1 (paper), 0-935398-16-3 (hard). The company is incorrectly called "Miwa Shōkai" on pp.62, 64 and 80, because of a wrong reading of the kanji characters 三和. The Baby Suzuka is wrongly attributed to Sanwa Shōkai on p.75.
- McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover). Pp.869–70.
