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''See also [[Tanaka Shōkai]], a company that was certainly unrelated.''
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''See also [[Tanaka|Tanaka Kōgaku]], maker of the Tanack rangefinder cameras, and [[Tanaka Shōkai]], a distributor in the 1950s.''
  
 
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A company called '''Tanaka''' (田中) was mentioned in the April 1943 government inquiry on Japanese cameras as the maker of the [[Mulix]] 6×6 folder and its Mulixar 75/4.5 and 75/3.5 four-element lenses.<REF> {{Inquiry1943_short}}, item 90, lens items Lb36 and Lc26. </REF> It is not known if it was related with the postwar maker of the Tanack cameras.
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A company called '''Tanaka''' (田中) is mentioned in the April 1943 government inquiry on Japanese cameras as the maker of the [[Mulix]] 6×6 folder and its Mulixar 75/4.5 and 75/3.5 four-element lenses.<REF> {{Inquiry1943_short}}, item 90, lens items Lb36 and Lc26. </REF>
  
'''Tanaka Kōgaku''' (田中光学) made Leica copies called Tanack and lenses called Tanar from about 1953 to about 1960.<REF> Dates: {{MK}}, p.913. </REF>
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Tanaka is a very common family name in Japan, and this company was surely not related to the postwar [[Tanaka|Tanaka Kōgaku]], maker of the Tanack cameras.
  
 
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* {{McKeown12}} Pp.913–4.
 
  
 
[[Category: Japanese camera makers]]
 
[[Category: Japanese camera makers]]

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See also Tanaka Kōgaku, maker of the Tanack rangefinder cameras, and Tanaka Shōkai, a distributor in the 1950s.

A company called Tanaka (田中) is mentioned in the April 1943 government inquiry on Japanese cameras as the maker of the Mulix 6×6 folder and its Mulixar 75/4.5 and 75/3.5 four-element lenses.[1]

Tanaka is a very common family name in Japan, and this company was surely not related to the postwar Tanaka Kōgaku, maker of the Tanack cameras.

Notes

  1. "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), item 90, lens items Lb36 and Lc26.

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