The name Jeicy Camera Works is found on the top cover of the Jeicy, a Japanese Leica copy made in the 1950s, of which very few examples were made. The cameras were assembled by Kumagai Genji,[1] former developer of the Nippon wartime Leica copy. This was Kumagai's last attempt at camera production,[1] perhaps as an individual business. The name "Jeicy Camera Works" itself did not correspond to an actual company,[2] and was continuing the tradition of dummy names ending in Camera Works, used in advertising material from the prewar period.
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- Shirai Tatsuo (白井達男). "Nippon Kamera" (ニッポンカメラ, Nippon Camera). Pp.17–26 of Maboroshi no kamera o otte (幻のカメラを追って, Pursuing phantom cameras). Gendai Kamera Shinsho (現代カメラ新書). Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1982. ISBN 4-257-08077-9. (First published in Kamera Rebyū / Camera Review no.2, February 1978.) Contains an interview of Kumagai Genji.