Eikōdō

Eikō-Dō (榮光堂) was a Japanese camera maker or distributor in the 1930s and 1940s.

It sold the Semi National (4.5×6) and National Six (6×6) folders. A 1939 advertisement in the Oct 1939 issue of Asahi Camera offers the Semi National II (セミ・ナショナルⅡ型) and National Six II (ナショナル・シックスⅡ型), both with body release, in many variants from ¥75 to ¥150.

Its address in 1954 was Tōkyō-to Chūō-ku Maki-chō 1, 1 (東京都中央区槇町１の１)^[1].

4.5×6 folder

• Semi National II

6×6 folder

• National Six II
• Ruvinal A
• Ruvinal B

6×6 TLR

• Ruvinal flex A
• Ruvinal flex B

Notes

1. ↑ Advertisement for the Semi National II and National Six II, reproduced in a page of Japanese prewar ads at the Heiki Seikatsu website, originally published in the Oct 1939 issue of Asahi Camera.
2. ↑ Template:Shashinbako

Links

• Ruvinal flex IIIA at Otowa no ni-kan refu
• A page of Japanese prewar ads at the Heiki Seikatsu website, the third ad is for the Semi National and National Six
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