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Revision as of 21:11, 9 October 2010

Yamamoto Shashinki Kōsakusho (山本写真機工作所) was a Japanese company based in Tokyo before World War II. It was already active in 1932, and made a spy camera taking 4.5×6cm plates perhaps called Egorette, certainly a copy of the Ergo. Its address at the time was Kanda-ku Ogawa-chō 1 (神田区小川町1) in Tokyo.[1] In 1937 it was Kanda-ku Ogawa-chō 2–14, Hijiribashi-dōri (神田区小川町2–14聖橋通).[2] It made a series of cameras called Kinka (written 錦華 and roughly meaning "imperial flower").

See also Yamamoto Shashinki-ten, a distributor based in Osaka which is probably not related.

Rollfilm cameras

3×4 telescopic

4.5×6 folder

Rebadged versions of the Semi Kinka were sold by Kuwata as the Semi Mulber and by Riken as the Adler B.

6×9 folder

Plate cameras

4.5×6 spy

6.5×9 folders

The Elliotte plate folders are attributed to Yamamoto by one source, but this is unconfirmed.[3]

Notes

  1. Advertisement in Asahi Camera June 1932, p.A39.
  2. Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.67.
  3. Attribution in Lewis, p.47.

Bibliography

  • Asahi Camera (アサヒカメラ) June 1932. Advertisement by Yamamoto Shashinki Kōsakusho on p.A39.
  • 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.
  • Lewis, Gordon, ed. The History of the Japanese Camera. Rochester, N.Y.: George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography & Film, 1991. ISBN 0-935398-17-1 (paper), 0-935398-16-3 (hard). Pp.47–8 (brief mention of the Kinka and Eliott).