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* [http://www2f.biglobe.ne.jp/~ter-1212/sakura/palace11year.htm Sakura Palace Portable] in the [http://www2f.biglobe.ne.jp/~ter-1212/sakura/11year.htm camera list] of the [http://www2f.biglobe.ne.jp/~ter-1212/sakura/index.htm R. Konishi Rokuoh-sha website]
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** [http://www2f.biglobe.ne.jp/~ter-1212/sakura/palace11year.htm Sakura Palace Portable] in the [http://www2f.biglobe.ne.jp/~ter-1212/sakura/11year.htm camera list]
  
  

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The Sakura Palace Portable Camera (さくらパレース手提暗函)[1] is a Japanese folding camera made by Rokuoh-sha, the manufacturing branch of Konishi (predecessor of Konica). It was reportedly released in June 1908.[2] It is simply called "Palace Portable" in some sources but one original advertisement shows the full name.[3]

The camera takes pictures on both tefuda-size (8×10.5cm) plates and rollfilm, presumably 118 film.[4] The only known illustration seems to indicate that the camera consists of two parts: a regular plate camera and a large rollfilm holder into which the main body is inserted.[5] The main camera has double extension bellows, a front standard made of two cylindrical masts, a brilliant finder perched atop the right-hand mast, and a pneumatic shutter release. It seems that two cases were provided, one for the camera alone with some plate holders, and the other for the camera with the rollfilm holder attached.

No surviving example of the Sakura Palace Portable is known. This camera is however historically significant because it is certainly the first Japanese camera taking rollfilm.

Notes

  1. The Roman name "Palace" is inferred from the katakana パレース, but it is not confirmed by the original documents seen so far. "Portable Camera" is an arbitrary translation of tesage anbako (手提暗函), which could also be rendered as "Hand Camera". The Japanese word anbako, literally meaning "dark box", was forged after "camera obscura" and was used for cameras until the 1910s approximately.
  2. Lewis, p.20, and chronology from the official company history Shashin to tomo ni hyaku-nen, reproduced in Tanaka, p.94 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.10. The date is simply given as 1908 in the chronology at R. Konishi Rokuoh-sha.
  3. Advertisement reproduced in Tanaka, p.94 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.10.
  4. Advertisement reproduced in Tanaka, p.94 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.10, and Lewis, p.33.
  5. Illustration of the advertisement reproduced in Tanaka, p.94 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.10. This illustration is also displayed in this page at R. Konishi Rokuoh-sha.

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Idea (original) | Idea A | Idea B | Idea Snap | Idea No.1 | Idea (metal) | Lily (original) | Lily (horizontal) | Lily (metal) | Tropical Lily | Noble | Ohca | Sakura Palace | Sakura Pocket Prano | Sakura Prano Idea Binocular | Sakura Binocular Prano Minimum Idea | Idea Spring | Korok Champion | Cherry | Sakura Army | Sakura Honor | Sakura Navy Idea Telephoto Idea Reflex (1910 and 1911) | Idea Reflex (1932) | Neat Reflex | Sakura Reflex Prano
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