Yamamoto Shashinki-ten

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Yamamoto Shashinki-ten (山本写真機店, meaning Yamamoto Camera Shop) was a Japanese distributor at the end of the 1930s, based in Osaka.[1] It distributed a number of cameras called Weha and was certainly the owner of the Weha brand. It perhaps had its own workshop that made some of the Weha cameras and accessories, maybe including the first examples of the Weha Chrome Six before they were made by Ehira Kōki.[2]

See also Yamamoto Shashinki Kōsaku-sho, a camera maker based in Tokyo that is probably not related.

Weha cameras and accessories

  • Weha Light (6.5×9 plate folder)[3]
  • Weha Six (6×6 folder)
  • Weha Chrome Six (6×6 rangefinder)
  • Weha accessory rangefinder, chrome, long base (sold ¥15 in 1936)[4]
  • Weha accessory rangefinder, black, shorter base (marked WEHA at the top, sold in a case inscribed WEHA Range Finder)[5]
  • Weha enlarger (1940–1)[6]

Other distributed cameras

Notes

  1. Its address from 1937 to 1939 was Ōsaka-shi Nishi-ku Awaza-nakadōri 1-chōme (大阪市西区阿波座中通一丁目). Source: advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 59–60.
  2. An advertisement dated October 1937 reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 59, mentions Yamamoto as the maker and distributor (製造発売元) of the Weha Chrome Six.
  3. Mentioned in McKeown, p. 255 (where it is wrongly attributed to Ehira) and in this page and this page at ksmt.com.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Advertisement published in Sunday Mainichi (December 13, 1936), reproduced in the Gochamaze website.
  5. Observed in a Yahoo Japan auction.
  6. Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 60.
  7. Advertisement dated March 1943 reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 59.

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