Mizuno
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Mizuno Shashinki-ten (水野写真機店) was a Japanese distributor active from the 1930s to the 1950s. Its address in 1936–1943 was Tōkyō-shi Shitaya-ku Kurumazaka-chō 39 Ueno-ekimae (東京市下谷区車坂町三九・上野駅前).[1] In 1952 it was Tōkyō-to Taitō-ku Kita-inarichō 1 (東京都台東区北稲荷町1).[2]
Contents
Cameras sold as a distributor
- Tokiwa Hand (1936)[3]
- Nippon (4.5×6) (1937)[4]
- Rollekonter (1940–3)[5]
- Semi Miss[6]
Cameras sold as an authorized dealer
- Baby Light[7]
- Semi Olympus II (1938)[8]
- Condor folders (1939–41)[9]
- Ako folders (1941–2)[10]
- Gelto (1952)[11]
- Middl 120 folders and Middl Flex TLR (1952–3)[12]
Notes
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp.72–3, 80–1 and 105–6, and undated leaflet by Ōhashi Takeji Shōten.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp.136 and 192.
- ↑ Advertisement reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.80.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.81.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp.105–6.
- ↑ "Kamera no kōtei kakaku kanpō happyō", November 1941, type 3, sections 4A and 7A.
- ↑ Undated leaflet by Ōhashi Takeji Shōten.
- ↑ Advertisement in Asahi Camera, February 1938, p.A42.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp.72–3.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp.58, 60 and 99.
- ↑ Advertisement reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.136.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.192.
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.
- "Kamera no kōtei kakaku kanpō happyō" (カメラの公定価格官報発表, Official announcement of the set prices of the cameras), November 1941. Extract of a table listing Japanese camera production and setting the retail prices, reproduced in "Bebī Semi Fāsuto 'Kore ha bebī wo nanotta semi-ki da'" (ベビーセミファースト"これはベビーを名乗ったセミ機だ", Baby Semi First, 'this is a Semi camera called Baby'), an article by Furukawa Yasuo (古川保男) in Camera Collectors' News no. 277 (July 2000). Nishinomiya: Camera Collectors News-sha. P. 27.
- Leaflet published by Ōhashi Takeji Shōten, presenting the Baby Light and the Cross filters and hood. Date not indicated.
