Kashimura
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K.K. Kashimura Yōkō (㈱樫村洋行) was a Japanese distributor. It sold the Kansai Kōgaku products in 1942.[1]
In 1943, the company established a new plant together with Fujimoto Seisakusho and Tomioka Kōgaku in the Manchurian city of Dalian, under the name Kantō Kōgaku Kōgyō K.K. (関東光学工業㈱).[2]
It was based in Tokyo after the war.[3] It was the distributor of the Ofuna cameras from 1953 to 1956–7, and it ordered the coupled-rangefinder Ofuna Six for export.[4]
The company was also distributing the Luck and the Lucky enlarger made by Fujimoto in 1952 and in 1954, it was still mentioned as authorized dealer in Kantō (Eastern Japan) for the Lucky enlargers.[5]
Notes
- ↑ Advertisement reproduced in the Gochamaze website.
- ↑ Fujimoto official company history.
- ↑ Its address in 1952 and 1953 was Tōkyō-to Chūō-ku Nihonbashi Honchō 4–11 (東京都中央区日本橋本町4–11). In 1954 it was Tōkyō-to Chiyoda-ku Kanda-Kaji-chō 1–3 (東京都千代田区神田鍛冶町1–3). Source: advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 124–5 and 205.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 124–5 and 225.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 125 and 225.
