Kikōdō

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Kikō-Dō (暿光堂) was a Japanese distributor based in Tokyo.[1] In 1934, the company asked Umemoto Kinzaburō (梅本金三郎) to set up a camera plant, that would become Umemoto Seisakusho, founded in 1935.[2] It sold the cameras made by Umemoto until the war.

After the war, there was a company called Bikō-Dō Seisakusho (美光堂製作所) or Super Photo (スーパー写真), that made a series of 6×6 TLRs called Superflex, but it is probably unrelated.

Cameras distributed

Cameras sold as authorized dealer

Other

  • Super accessory rangefinder (sold ¥15 in 1937)[3]

Notes

  1. Its address in 1937 and 1938 was Tōkyō-shi nihonbashi-ku Kodenma-chō 1, 1 (東京市日本馬市区小伝馬町1の1). Source: advertisements for the Super Makinet Six reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 94.
  2. Umemoto company history.
  3. Advertisement dated April 1937 for the Super Makinet Six, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 94.

Links

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