Chapter 1 - Kunio Doi's Tokyo Shop - Camera Taiyodo
> Still looking for stock a year on from their first advertisement, here is the front cover and first page of the January 1947 issue of Ars Camera magazine. The characters in the frame under the word "CAMERA" are the contents, while below is an advertisement by Camera Taiyodo "buying at the highest prices" Click here for a larger image.
> This grainy image is a cutting from a larger 1956 newspaper spread featuring Chiyoko Shimakura, a famous Japanese singer and TV presenter of the time, shopping in Chiyodo. Here she is pictured buying a camera from Camera Taiyodo.
(above) A 21st century photo of the "Camera Taiyodo" Tokyo shop front after dark (Internet image from an unknown source).
> Gone but not forgotten, a Camera Taiyodo name plaque still adorns a side entrance (2020 Internet image).
< An advertisement placed in a 1947 issue of the satirical magazine VAN featuring a picture of a pre-War Contax
< A 2010 student magazine published by Senshu University of Chiyoda that included a feature on the Camera Taiyodo shop
