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Revision as of 14:39, 4 June 2007
Gōshi-gaisha Fukada Shōkai (合資会社深田商会, meaning Fukada Company or Fukada Trading Co.) was a Japanese camera distributor of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Its address was Minami-honmachi (南本町) 2–45 in Osaka.[1] It distributed various cameras called "Prince" and "Doris" and it was certainly the owner of these two brand names, at least before and during the war.
The company Mima Shōkai, a postwar distributor based in Osaka too, re-used the trademarks "Prince" and "Prince Camera Works" and the associated PCW logo from 1953 to 1956. It was perhaps a successor of Fukada.
Distributed cameras
- Prince Peerless[2]
- Semi Prince[3]
- Prince Flex[4]
- Pocket Prince[5]
- Prince Baby Ref[6]
- Semi Prux[7]
- Doris (3×4)[8]
- Baby Doris[9]
- Peacock[10]
- Elmoflex[11]
Notes
- ↑ The address was Ōsaka-shi Sakai-suji Minami-honmachi 2–45 (大阪市界筋南本町二ノ四五) in 1937 and it had become Ōsaka-shi Higashi-ku Minami-honmachi 2–45 (大阪市東区南本町二ノ四五) in 1943 because of an administrative change. The company also used a postal box in 1939 and 1940: Ōsaka Chūō-kyoku Shishobako 204 (大阪中央局私書函204號). Source: advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 60, 80 and 91.
- ↑ Lewis, p. 48.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 90–1.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 91.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 80 and 91.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 80 and 91.
- ↑ Advertisement reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 91.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 80 and 91.
- ↑ Advertisement reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 60 and 80.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 80.
- ↑ Advertisement reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 60 and 80.
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).