Asanuma Shōkai, or Asanuma & Co, Ltd., is a Japanese distributor of photographic equipment, founded by Asanuma Tōkichi in the late 1800's. It once manufactured its own large-format studio and field cameras, and also some amateur cameras in the early 1900's. It continues until today with a range of photo accessories sold as "King.
From 1933, Asanuma distributed the Happy and the various Minolta models of the Molta company, later Chiyoda Kōgaku Seikō, having the exclusive right to sell these cameras until the end of the second world war. After the war it still appears as an authorized dealer of the Minolta cameras, until at least as late as 1952.
Asanuma also distributed the Congo lenses of Yamasaki.
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