Ōhashi

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The distributor Ōhashi Shashinki-ten (大橋写真機店) was already active in 1932 in Tokyo. It advertised the Baby Sport, perhaps the first 3×4cm Japanese camera, and the Elliotte plate folders; its address at the time was Honjo-ku Matsui-chō (本所区松井町).[1] It was certainly renamed Ōhashi Takeji Shōten (大橋武治商店), after Ōhashi Takeji (大橋武治), the father of Ōhashi Kyosen (大橋巨泉), a Japanese TV presenter and politician.[2] The address in the mid-1930s was Honjo-ku Ryōgoku 4–12 (本所区両国4–12).[3]

Ōhashi Kōki Seisakusho (大橋光機製作所) was a associated camera maker associated to Ōhashi Takeji Shōten. Its address was Edogawa-ku Koiwa-machi 3–1625 (江戸川区小岩町3–1625), also in Tokyo.[4] It made a few cameras around 1935–7.

Camera list

Confirmed as made by Ōhashi Kōki Seisakusho:

Other:

The Hope (4.5×6) folder is sometimes attributed to Ōhashi but this is unconfirmed.[6]

Other

  • Bosch 75/4.5 enlarging lens
  • Cross filters, filter holders, hoods and gauze screens
  • Riken type all-purpose hoods (also acting as filter holders)

Notes

  1. Advertisement in Asahi Camera June 1932, p.A15.
  2. Sugiyama, item 2097. Ōhashi Kyosen makes various allusions to his late father Ōhashi Takeji in his website.
  3. Undated leaflets by Ōhashi Takeji Shōten.
  4. Source: undated leaflets by Ōhashi Takeji Shōten. The company was also using postal box no.15 at the Honjo post office (東京本所局私書函十五號). Source: advertisement published in the April 1937 issue of Asahi Camera, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.100.
  5. Sugiyama, item 2097, says that the "Elliotte Ace" was made by Aloha Optical Works and distributed by Ōhashi Takeji Shōten. The camera is called "Elliotte Ref" or "Elliotte Flex" and attributed to the distributor Chiyoda Shōkai in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.347.
  6. Sugiyama, item 1072.

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