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Revision as of 18:46, 6 February 2008
Misuzu Shōkai and MSZ logo (1932). (Image rights) |
Misuzu Shōkai (i.e. Misuzu Trading Company) was a Japanese distributor. It was founded on June 1st, 1922 as simply Misuzu Shōkai (美篶商会) and became K.K. Misuzu Shōkai (㈱美篶商会) on May 16th, 1936.[1] It was based in Tokyo, Ginza[2] and distributed cameras from 1936 to 1944, then again from 1947 to the early 1950s. It sold a number of cameras under its own brands, and it perhaps made some cameras as well: it is said that the Midget subminiature was manufactured by the company.[3]
On June 24th, 1965, it changed its name again to Misuzu Shōkai K.K. (美スズ商会㈱, abandoning the kanji character, whose reading is hard to guess).[4] The company was still in existence in 2004.
Contents
Cameras sold by Misuzu Shōkai under its own name
- Vest Alex (4×6.5, 1936–8), later sold by Riken as the Vest Olympic
- Midget (1937)
- Romax plate folder (6.5×9, 1938)
- New Midget (1939, again in 1947)
- New Midget II f/4.5 (1940)
- Andes Four (4×4, 1941)
- Semi Lead (4.5×6 folder, 1941–4)
The website of the company said that the Midget was made by Misuzu itself.
Other cameras sold by Misuzu Shōkai
As a distributor
- Well Standard and Well Super by Nihon Kōki
- Semi Leotax by Shōwa Kōgaku (prewar and wartime period)
- Baby Leotax by Shōwa Kōgaku
- Alpenflex by Hachiyō Kōgaku Kōgyō
As an authorized dealer
- Vester Klapp by Ginrei (as an authorized dealer)
- Speed Pocket by Kuribayashi (as an authorized dealer)
- Olympus Standard and Semi Olympus II by Takachiho (as an authorized dealer)
- Tsubasa Chrome, Tsubasa Spring and Tsubasa Super Semi by Kigawa (as an authorized dealer)
- Romax (6×6) (as an authorized dealer)
- Baron Six by Chūō Seiki (as an authorized dealer)
- Shinkoh Rabbit by Tougodo (Yamanashi) (as an authorized dealer)
Field and studio cameras
Advertisements by Misuzu Shōkai in Ars Camera November 1924, December 1926, February and November 1927, and in Asahi Camera March 1928. (Image rights) |
Other advertisements
Advertisements by Misuzu Shōkai in Asahi Camera February 1930. (Image rights) |
Advertisements by Misuzu Shōkai in Asahi Camera June 1932. (Image rights) |
Notes
- ↑ Chronology of the Misuzu official website (web archive version Sep 24, 2004).
- ↑ Its address from 1939 to 1944 was Tōkyō-shi Kyōbashi-ku Ginza 8-chōme (東京市京橋区銀座八丁目). Source: advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp.96 and 102.
- ↑ Midget page of the Misuzu official website (web archive version Sep 24, 2004).
- ↑ Chronology of the Misuzu official website (web archive version Sep 24, 2004).
Bibliography
- Asahi Camera. Advertisements by Misuzu Shōkai in February 1930 (pp.A2 and A41) and June 1932 (pp.A2 and A45).
- 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.
Links
In Japanese:
- A web archive version (Sep 24, 2004) of the Misuzu Shōkai corporate site, which is now dead. There is a company presentation, with a chronology and the history of Misuzu's name, and a page presenting a Midget camera. (If the text is garbled rather than Japanese, switch the encoding to Shift-JIS.)