Kikōdō

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Kiko-Do (暿光堂, Kikô-dô) was a distributor. In 1934, it asked Umemoto Kinzaburô (梅本金三郎) to setup a camera plant. That would be Umemoto Seisakusho, founded in 1935. It sold the cameras made by Umemoto at least until the war. Among them were a Makinette 6 (マキネット6) 6x6 folding camera in 1936, and the Super Flex Baby from 1938.

McKeown lists three models of a "Super Flex" camera under the entry "Biko-Do Manufacturing Co". It is probable that it was the same company.