Tōkyō Shashin
Tōkyō Shashin Kōgaku Kōgyōsho (東京写真工業所)[1] was a Japanese camera maker based in Tokyo, Arakawa.[2] It made the Baby Germa 3×4cm camera from late 1938;[3] the camera was still distributed by Kigawa in 1943.[4] The company made the Helios 50/4.5 three-element lens mounted on the Baby Germa and on various other cameras.[5] It seems that it also made the Tsubasa accessories (e.g. hoods and self-timer) distributed by Matsuzaki Shashinki-ten,[6] and it was thus probably related to Optochrom and Kigawa.
Tōkyō Shashin Shōkai (東京写真商会, i.e. "Tokyo photography trading") was a Japanese distributor that advertised the Ami and Sintax folding cameras between 1941 and 1943.[7]
It is not known if the two companies were related.
Contents
Camera made by Tōkyō Shashin Kōgaku
- Baby Germa (3×4)
Cameras equipped with a lens by Tōkyō Shashin Kōgaku
Some examples of the following cameras were observed or reported with a Helios Anastigmat lens certainly made by Tōkyō Shashin Kōgaku.
Cameras distributed by Tōkyō Shashin Shōkai
- Ami (4.5×6 folder)
- Sintax (4.5×6 folder)
Notes
- ↑ The company is called "Tōkyō Shashin Kōgaku Kōgyō-sha" (東京写真工業社) in the "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras").
- ↑ Its address in 1943 was Tōkyō-to Arakawa-ku Nippori-watanabe-chō 4–1143 (東京都荒川区日暮里渡辺町1040). Source: "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), listing the Japanese camera production as of April 1943.
- ↑ Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 336.
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), item 167.
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), lens item Jc12.
- ↑ An advertisement published in Ars Camera October 1938 and cited in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 336 says that Tōkyō Shashin Kōgaku Kōgyōsho was the maker of the Tsubasa products (ツバサ製品), presumably the accessories.
- ↑ Its address in 1942 was Tōkyō-shi Kanda-ku Awaji-chō 2, 7 — Koguchi Building (東京市神田区淡路町二ノ七・小口ビル). Source: advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 58 and 74
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.
- "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" (国産写真機ノ現状調査, Inquiry into Japanese cameras), listing Japanese camera production as of April 1943. Reproduced in Supuringu kamera de ikou: Zen 69 kishu no shōkai to tsukaikata (スプリングカメラでいこう: 全69機種の紹介と使い方, Let's try spring cameras: Presentation and use of 69 machines). Tokyo: Shashinkogyo Syuppan-sha, 2004. ISBN 4-87956-072-3. Pp.180–7.
