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'''Eikō-Dō''' (榮光堂) was a Japanese camera maker or distributor in the 1930s and 1940s.
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'''Eikō-Dō''' (榮光堂) was a Japanese camera distributor and perhaps maker. It was active as early as 1936. Until the war, it distributed various folders, like the Collex, National and Ugein, as well as an enlarger called Asia DO.<REF> Its address at the time was Tōkyō-shi Kanda-ku Nishi-Kanda 1, 1 (東京市神田區西神田1ノ1). Source: advertisements by Eikō-Dō dated 1936 to 1943, reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, pp.&nbsp;72, 80&ndash;1 and 99&ndash;100. </REF>
  
It distributed the National (4&times;6.5 and 3&times;4 dual format), Semi National (4.5&times;6) and National Six (6&times;6) folders. It also distributed the 1937 [[Collex]].
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After the war, it seems that the company was reformed from 1951 to 1953 as '''Maki Shōji''' (槇商事) and called Eikō-Dō again in 1953 and 1954, selling the Ruvinal folder (a continuation of the wartime Ugein) and the Ruvinal Flex TLR.<REF> Its address from 1951 to 1954 was Tōkyō-to Chūō-ku Maki-chō 1, 1 (東京都中央区槇町1の1). Source: advertisements by Maki Shōji and Eikō-Dō dated 1951 to 1954, reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;210. </REF>
 
 
Its address in 1937 was Tōkyō-shi Kanda-ku Nishi-Kanda 1, 1 (東京市神田區西神田1ノ1)<REF> Advertisement by Eikō-Dō published in the April 1937 issue of ''Asahi Camera'', reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;72. </REF>. Its address in 1954 was Tōkyō-to Chūō-ku Maki-chō 1, 1 (東京都中央区槇町1の1)<REF> {{shashinbako|Ruvinal (A and B) and Ruvinal flex (A and B)|17843208}} </REF>.
 
  
 
== 120 film ==
 
== 120 film ==

Revision as of 22:35, 15 October 2006

Eikō-Dō (榮光堂) was a Japanese camera distributor and perhaps maker. It was active as early as 1936. Until the war, it distributed various folders, like the Collex, National and Ugein, as well as an enlarger called Asia DO.[1]

After the war, it seems that the company was reformed from 1951 to 1953 as Maki Shōji (槇商事) and called Eikō-Dō again in 1953 and 1954, selling the Ruvinal folder (a continuation of the wartime Ugein) and the Ruvinal Flex TLR.[2]

120 film

4.5×6 folder

6×6 folder

6×6 TLR

  • Ruvinal Flex A, B
  • Ruvinal Flex IIIA, IIIB

127 film

4×6.5 folder

Notes

  1. Its address at the time was Tōkyō-shi Kanda-ku Nishi-Kanda 1, 1 (東京市神田區西神田1ノ1). Source: advertisements by Eikō-Dō dated 1936 to 1943, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 72, 80–1 and 99–100.
  2. Its address from 1951 to 1954 was Tōkyō-to Chūō-ku Maki-chō 1, 1 (東京都中央区槇町1の1). Source: advertisements by Maki Shōji and Eikō-Dō dated 1951 to 1954, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 210.

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