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'''Nihon Shōkai''' (日本商会) was a Japanese camera distributor based in Tokyo that was active in the 1930s and 1940s.<REF> Its address from 1937 to 1943 was Tōkyō-shi Nihonbashi-ku Tōri 2, 4 (東京市日本橋區通り二ノ四). Source: advertisements reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, pp.&nbsp;58, 78 and 107, and in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website]. </REF> [http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~masaki-k/camera%20WALZFLEX.htm 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.
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'''Nihon Shōkai''' (日本商会) was a Japanese camera distributor based in Tokyo that was active in the 1930s and 1940s.<REF> Its address from 1937 to 1943 was Tōkyō-shi Nihonbashi-ku Tōri 2, 4 (東京市日本橋區通り二ノ四). Source: advertisements reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, pp.58, 78 and 107, and in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website]. </REF> Nihon Shōkai sold a Walz camera and various Walz accessories before 1945, and it was perhaps the owner of the Walz brand name, becoming [[Walz|Walz Shōkai]] after the war. Many of the products distributed by Nihon Shōkai were also jointly advertised by [[Honjo|Honjo Shōkai]].
  
 
== Cameras distributed as main distributor ==
 
== Cameras distributed as main distributor ==
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* [[Walz (3&times;4)]]<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki34.jpg Advertisement] pulished in ''[[Asahi Graph]]'' (16 June 1937), reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website]. </REF>
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* [[Walz (3×4)]]<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki34.jpg Advertisement] pulished in ''[[Asahi Graph]]'' (16 June 1937), reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website]. </REF>
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* [[Waltax]] (wartime, together with the wholesales branch of [[Honjō|Honjō Shōkai]])<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki23.jpg Advertisement] published in ''[[Asahi Graph]]'' (3 March 1943), reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website], advertisement published in ''[[Hōdō Shashin]]'' April 1942, reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;107, and advertisement for the Waltax published between 1942 and 1945, reproduced in [http://www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~inasan99/camera/nostalgic_camera.html Nostalgic Camera] by Toshio Inamura. </REF>
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* [[Waltax]] (wartime, together with the wholesales branch of [[Honjō|Honjō Shōkai]])<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki23.jpg Advertisement] published in ''[[Asahi Graph]]'' (3 March 1943), reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website], advertisement published in ''[[Hōdō Shashin]]'' April 1942, reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, p.107, and advertisement for the Waltax published between 1942 and 1945, reproduced in [http://www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~inasan99/camera/nostalgic_camera.html Nostalgic Camera] by Toshio Inamura. </REF>
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* [[Taroflex]] (together with the wholesales branch of [[Honjō|Honjō Shōkai]])<REF> Advertisement published in ''[[Hōdō Shashin]]'' May 1943, reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;78. </REF>
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* [[Taroflex]] (together with the wholesales branch of [[Honjō|Honjō Shōkai]])<REF> Advertisement published in ''[[Hōdō Shashin]]'' May 1943, reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, p.78. </REF>
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* [[Alfax]] (together with the wholesales branch of [[Honjō|Honjō Shōkai]])<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki1.jpg Advertisement] published in ''[[Hōdō Shashin]]'' March 1942, reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website] and in {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;58. </REF>
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* [[Alfax]] (together with the wholesales branch of [[Honjō|Honjō Shōkai]])<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki1.jpg Advertisement] published in ''[[Hōdō Shashin]]'' March 1942, reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website] and in {{Kokusan}}, p.58. </REF>
 
* [[Mamiya Six|Mamiya Six II and III]]<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki2.jpg Advertisement] published in ''[[Asahi Graph]]'' (22 December 1943), reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website]. </REF>
 
* [[Mamiya Six|Mamiya Six II and III]]<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki2.jpg Advertisement] published in ''[[Asahi Graph]]'' (22 December 1943), reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website]. </REF>
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* [[Walz]] accessories.<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki2.jpg Advertisement] published in ''[[Asahi Graph]]'' (22 December 1943), reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website]. </REF>
 
  
 
== Cameras distributed as authorized dealer ==
 
== Cameras distributed as authorized dealer ==
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* [[Ako folders]]<REF> Advertisements published in the December 1941 and March 1942 issues of ''[[Hōdō Shashin]],'' reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, pp.&nbsp;58 and 60. </REF>
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* [[Ako folders]]<REF> Advertisements published in the December 1941 and March 1942 issues of ''[[Hōdō Shashin]],'' reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, pp.58 and 60. </REF>
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== Other ==
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* Walz filters and hood<REF> Advertisement on p.6 of ''Nihon Shashin Kōgyō Tsūshin'', December 15, 1939, reproduced on p.40 of ''Hyaku-gō goto jūkai no kiroku'', and [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki2.jpg advertisement] in ''[[Asahi Graph]]'', December 22, 1943, reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website]. </REF>
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* Walz accessory rangefinder<REF> Advertisement on p.6 of ''Nihon Shashin Kōgyō Tsūshin'', December 15, 1939, reproduced on p.40 of ''Hyaku-gō goto jūkai no kiroku''. </REF>
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* Walz close-up rangefinder device, copy of the Contameter<REF> Advertisement on p.6 of ''Nihon Shashin Kōgyō Tsūshin'', December 15, 1939, reproduced on p.40 of ''Hyaku-gō goto jūkai no kiroku''. </REF>
  
 
== Notes ==
 
== Notes ==
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== Bibliography ==
 
== Bibliography ==
 
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* ''Nihon Shashin Kōgyō Tsūshin'' (日本写真興業通信). ''Hyaku-gō goto jūkai no kiroku'' (百号ごと十回の記録, Ten records, every hundred issues). Tokyo: Nihon Shashin Kōgyō Tsūshin Sha (日本写真興業通信社), 1967. No ISBN number. Advertisement on p.40, corresponding to p.6 of the December 15, 1939 issue.
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* [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki2.jpg Advertisement by Nihon Shōkai and Honjo Shōkai] published in the 22 December 1943 issue of ''[[Asahi Graph]]'', reproduced in the [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki.htm Japanese camera page] of the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website]
  
 
[[Category: Japanese distributors]]
 
[[Category: Japanese distributors]]

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Nihon Shōkai (日本商会) was a Japanese camera distributor based in Tokyo that was active in the 1930s and 1940s.[1] Nihon Shōkai sold a Walz camera and various Walz accessories before 1945, and it was perhaps the owner of the Walz brand name, becoming Walz Shōkai after the war. Many of the products distributed by Nihon Shōkai were also jointly advertised by Honjo Shōkai.

Cameras distributed as main distributor

Cameras distributed as authorized dealer

Other

  • Walz filters and hood[8]
  • Walz accessory rangefinder[9]
  • Walz close-up rangefinder device, copy of the Contameter[10]

Notes

  1. ↑ Its address from 1937 to 1943 was Tōkyō-shi Nihonbashi-ku Tōri 2, 4 (東京市日本橋區通り二ノ四). Source: advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp.58, 78 and 107, and in the Gochamaze website.
  2. ↑ Advertisement pulished in Asahi Graph (16 June 1937), reproduced in the Gochamaze website.
  3. ↑ Advertisement published in Asahi Graph (3 March 1943), reproduced in the Gochamaze website, advertisement published in Hōdō Shashin April 1942, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.107, and advertisement for the Waltax published between 1942 and 1945, reproduced in Nostalgic Camera by Toshio Inamura.
  4. ↑ Advertisement published in Hōdō Shashin May 1943, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.78.
  5. ↑ Advertisement published in Hōdō Shashin March 1942, reproduced in the Gochamaze website and in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.58.
  6. ↑ Advertisement published in Asahi Graph (22 December 1943), reproduced in the Gochamaze website.
  7. ↑ Advertisements published in the December 1941 and March 1942 issues of Hōdō Shashin, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp.58 and 60.
  8. ↑ Advertisement on p.6 of Nihon Shashin Kōgyō Tsūshin, December 15, 1939, reproduced on p.40 of Hyaku-gō goto jūkai no kiroku, and advertisement in Asahi Graph, December 22, 1943, reproduced in the Gochamaze website.
  9. ↑ Advertisement on p.6 of Nihon Shashin Kōgyō Tsūshin, December 15, 1939, reproduced on p.40 of Hyaku-gō goto jūkai no kiroku.
  10. ↑ Advertisement on p.6 of Nihon Shashin Kōgyō Tsūshin, December 15, 1939, reproduced on p.40 of Hyaku-gō goto jūkai no kiroku.

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.
  • Nihon Shashin Kōgyō Tsūshin (日本写真興業通信). Hyaku-gō goto jūkai no kiroku (百号ごと十回の記録, Ten records, every hundred issues). Tokyo: Nihon Shashin Kōgyō Tsūshin Sha (日本写真興業通信社), 1967. No ISBN number. Advertisement on p.40, corresponding to p.6 of the December 15, 1939 issue.

Links

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