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Revision as of 04:23, 8 August 2006
Nihon Shōkai (日本商会) was a Japanese camera distributor at least in the 1930s and 1940s. It was the distributor of the original Walz camera[1]. It also distributed the wartime Waltax[2], together with the wholesales branch of Honjō Shōkai (本庄商会卸部). The latter company still exists as Honjō K.K. (本庄株式会社), a photo wholesaler (see the company history here). The two companies also appear as authorized dealers on a wartime advertisement for the Mamiya Six II and III[3]. In the same ad were also offered some Walz filters and a Walz hood for the Mamiya Six.
Its address was Tōkyō-shi Nihonbashi-ku Tōri 2, 4 (東京市日本橋區通り二ノ四).
This Japanese page at La Chambre Claire suggests that Nihon Shōkai was the owner of the Walz brand name before the war, and became Walz Shōkai after the war.
Notes
- ↑ Template:Gochamaze
- ↑ Advertisement for the Waltax, visible in Nostalgic Camera, a page of old Japanese ads by Toshio Inamura, originally published between 1942 and 1945. — Template:Gochamaze
- ↑ Template:Gochamaze
Web bibliography
- Page of prewar and wartime advertisements for Japanese cameras at the Gochamaze website
- Nostalgic Camera, a page of old Japanese ads by Toshio Inamura.
