Yamamoto Shashinki Kōsakusho
Yamamoto Shashinki Kōsaku-sho (山本写真機工作所) was a Japanese company based in Tokyo before World War II.[1]. It made a series of cameras called Kinka (written 錦華 and roughly meaning "imperial flower").
See also Yamamoto Shashinki-ten, a distributor that may be related.
Contents
3×4 telescopic
4.5×6 folder
6×9 folder
- Kinka Roll
6.5×9 plate folders
- Kinka
- Eliott
Notes
- ↑ Its address in 1937 was Tōkyō-shi Kanda-ku Ogawa-chō 2, 14, Hijiribashi-dōri (東京市神田区小川町二ノ十四聖橋通). Source: advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 67.
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.
- 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.
Links
- Plate folder, perhaps a Kinka, at the Monomono blog