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During the war, it distributed the [[Primo]] folders by [[Daiichi Kikō]]. After the war, it also distributed the [[Primoflex]] and [[Primo Junior]] TLR cameras by [[Topcon|Tōkyō Kōgaku]].<REF> {{McKeown}}, p.&nbsp;924. </REF> It was probably the owner of the "Primo" trademark.
 
During the war, it distributed the [[Primo]] folders by [[Daiichi Kikō]]. After the war, it also distributed the [[Primoflex]] and [[Primo Junior]] TLR cameras by [[Topcon|Tōkyō Kōgaku]].<REF> {{McKeown}}, p.&nbsp;924. </REF> It was probably the owner of the "Primo" trademark.
   
== Camera list ==
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== Distributed cameras ==
These cameras were distributed by Ōsawa Shōkai:
 
 
* [[Semi Rosen]]
 
* [[Semi Rosen]]
 
* [[Baby Rosen and Rosen Four|Rosen Four]]
 
* [[Baby Rosen and Rosen Four|Rosen Four]]
 
* [[Primo]] by [[Daiichi Kikō]] (1941&ndash;4)
 
* [[Primo]] by [[Daiichi Kikō]] (1941&ndash;4)
 
* [[Primoflex]] by [[Topcon|Tōkyō Kōgaku]]
 
* [[Primoflex]] by [[Topcon|Tōkyō Kōgaku]]
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* [[Topcon 35]] by [[Topcon|Tōkyō Kōgaku]] (1953&ndash;4)
 
* [[Semi Oscon]] by [[Yamagata|Yamagata Kikai]] (1953&ndash;4)
 
* [[Semi Oscon]] by [[Yamagata|Yamagata Kikai]] (1953&ndash;4)
   

Revision as of 23:05, 19 January 2007

K.K. Ōsawa Shōkai (株式会社大沢商会 or 株式會社大澤商會 in old writing) was a Japanese distributor based in Tokyo.[1]

In the 1930s, it was the distributor of the Rosen Four and Semi Rosen. It perhaps owned the "Rosen" trademark, and it is likely that it was also the distributor of the Baby Rosen and Rosen Hand.

During the war, it distributed the Primo folders by Daiichi Kikō. After the war, it also distributed the Primoflex and Primo Junior TLR cameras by Tōkyō Kōgaku.[2] It was probably the owner of the "Primo" trademark.

Distributed cameras

Notes

  1. Its address in 1942 and 1943 was Tōkyō, Ginza, 42, 5 (東京・銀座・四二ノ五). Source: advertisement for the Primo, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 90 and in the Gochamaze website.
  2. McKeown, p. 924.

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