Yamamoto Shashinki Kōsakusho
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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.
Contents
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
- ↑ Advertisement in Asahi Camera June 1932, p.A39.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.67.
- ↑ 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).
