Yamamoto Shashinki-ten
G.K. Yamamoto Shashinki-ten (合名会社山本写真機店, meaning Yamamoto Camera Shop) was a Japanese distributor in the 1930s, based in Osaka.[1] It distributed a number of cameras and accessories called Weha, and was certainly the owner of the Weha brand.
See also Yamamoto Shashinki Kōsakusho, a camera maker based in Tokyo which is probably not related.
Weha cameras and accessories
Weha Chrome Six
- Weha plate folders (6.5×9 and 8×10.5)
- Weha Idea (6.5×9 plate folder, a rebadged Idea by Rokuoh-sha)
- Weha Six (6×6 folder made by Ehira)
- Weha Chrome Six (6×6 rangefinder made by Ehira)
- Weha accessory rangefinder, chrome, long base (made by Ehira, sold ¥15 in 1936)[2]
- Weha accessory rangefinder, black, shorter base (marked WEHA at the top, sold in a case inscribed WEHA Range Finder)[3]
- Weha enlarger (1940–1)[4]
Other distributed cameras
- Baby Lyra by Fuji Kōgaku (in 1936)[2]
- Semi Lyra by Fuji Kōgaku (in 1936)[2]
- Wester or Semi Wester (4.5×6 folder) by Nishida (authorized dealer for Kansai in 1943)[5]
Notes
- ↑ Its address from 1933 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: advertisement published in Ōsaka Shashin Shinbun April 1st, 1933, reproduced in Tanimura, p.97 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.12, and advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp.59–60.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Made by Ehira: Tanimura, p.33. Price: advertisement published in Sunday Mainichi (December 13, 1936), reproduced in the Gochamaze website.
- ↑ Observed in an online auction.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.60.
- ↑ Advertisement dated March 1943 reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.59.
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.
- Tanimura Yoshihiko (谷村吉彦). "Ehira Shinjirō no kamera: Ehira Kōki, Uehā kara Eruchina made" (江平信次郎のカメラ・江平光機、ウエハーからエルチナまで, The cameras of Ehira Shinjirō, from the Weha to the Eltina). Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュー クラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no.51, June 1999. ISBN 4-257-13024-5. Kurashikku kamera supesharu (クラシックカメラスペシャル, issue about miscellaneous classic cameras). Pp.32–9.
- Tanimura Yoshihiko (谷村吉彦). "Neumann & Heilemann: kieta ashiato, Minoruta setsuritsu to sono ato no karera wo otte" (Neumann & Heilemann 消えた足跡・ミノルタ設立とその後の彼等を追って, On the traces of Neumann & Heilemann at the founding of Minolta and afterwards.) Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュー クラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no.12, October 1988. No ISBN number. Minoruta kamera no subete (ミノルタカメラのすべて, special issue on Minolta). Pp.96–9.
Links
- Advertisement showing the Weha rangefinder, published in the December 13, 1936 issue of Sunday Mainichi, reproduced in the camera company page of the Gochamaze website
- First and second mention of the Weha Light at ksmt.com
