Mima
Mima Shōkai (美馬商会) was a Japanese company of the 1950s. Its address was Minami-ku Shiomachi (南区塩町) 2–35 in Osaka.[1]
Mima distributed the Princeflex and Prince Junior 6×6 TLR cameras from 1953 to 1956. In advertisements for these cameras, it used the name "Prince Camera Works" (プリンスカメラワークス) and the PCW logo already found on prewar and wartime advertisements by Fukada Shōkai, which was based in Osaka too. The trademarks Prince, "Prince Camera Works" and the logo were probably recovered by Mima from Fukada, of which it is perhaps a successor.
Distributed cameras
Notes
- ↑ Advertisements dated September 1953 to January 1956, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 176–7.
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.
