Named in honor of Giichi Nakamura, the owner of Mitaka Koki, the leading maker of optical equipment in Japan. Mitaka Koki develops and produces observational and measuring equipment used at the National Astronomical Observatory and the Institute of Space and Astronomical Science. The company also puts an emphasis on producing equipment for Japanese amateur astronomers. (M 17223) _ _.
Discovered on 19-2-1988 in Kobuchizawa by Inoue, M., Muramatsu, O.