1890 March – Russian or Asiatic flu pandemic reaches Japan (reached Britain in December 1889)
1890 Japanese monetary crisis caused by failure of rice harvest
1890 May 1 to November – Tannaker‘s Japanese Village at the Edinburgh International Exhibition
1890 June – Mikado Japanese juggler – Barnsley
1890 June – August – Royal Tycoon Japanese Troupe – Liverpool
1890 July – Como Tarro (Kumakichi) and Pongo the man monkey
1890 August – Yasokichi jailed for a month for deserting his wife
1891 April census:
John Gingero and his wife Annie and children in Liverpool. Como Tarro and his wife Hannah and children in London.
Arthur K Tarro staying in a boarding house in Leicester, aged 26, Lily aged 22. Occupation tight rope walker. Born in Japan, naturalised British subject. Madeline staying with her parents in Manchester.
Kondo Torakichi‘s wife and family Oalbudersan/Alice, Una, Nellie and May living with Alice’s mother Caroline Daniels at 23 Western Road, Wood Green, London.
Kondo Yasokichi‘s wife Emma, head of household, in Walsall, aged 37, working as a charwoman, Sarah aged 12, Motto aged 8, Fanny aged 6 and Charles aged 1. Rose Emma, the oldest child, is in service to a family in Withington, Lancashire, aged 14. No sign of Martha Elizabeth or Yasokichi.
Gintarro Ikio aged 18, performer, Minoski Ikio, 31, merchant – boarders in Lavender Hill, Battersea, London
Michael Percy (Sekine Ichitaro) living in a Nottingham boarding house, married, aged 32, and artist, born in Japan
Takijiro Metsuda, 42, Dick Metsuda, son, 21, King, son, 20, boarding in Burnley. All acrobats (The Mitsutas)
1891 September – The Japan Society of London is founded
1891 November – Michael Percy Tarro (Ichitaro) arrested in Leeds for obtaining goods under false pretences
1892 Tannaker bankrupt
1892 Chiyokichi appears as Tamarmotto Chiyokichi, sliding and slack rope, swinging bamboo, sword feats, with his wife.
1893 Tannaker discharged from bankruptcy
1893 August – Otake Maude, daughter of Tannaker and Otake, dies of cholera in Cleethorpes.
1894 July – Unequal Treaties revised. Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed.
1894 July to April 1895 Sino-Japanese War resulting in Treaty of Shimonoseki, and China’s cession of Formosa (Taiwan) and the Penghu Islands to Japan.
1894 August – Tannaker Buhicrosan dies of cirrhosis of the liver and acute jaundice
1894 Thomas Glover becomes head of Japan Brewery Company (predecessor of Kirin Beer) and then resigns and goes into semi retirement
1894 Watanabe Senjiro represents Mitsui for the raising of the Japanese flag in Liverpool with transfer of steamer Pallas from T&J Harrison to a firm of Japanese colliery proprietors, negotiated by Mitsui.
1894-5 Tokio Marine Insurance sends Kagami Kengichi to London, opens office on Cornhill, George Bullen is first manager.
1895 First major banking link forged between Britain and Japan, when Japanese government insisted Chinese indemnity from the war be paid in London and requested the Bank of England to open an account for the Yokohama Specie Bank to receive the first instalment.
1895 Shoda Heigoro, Nippon Yusen company director, travels to Europe to negotiate with European-Far Eastern Conference, to prepare for new NYK service to Europe.
1895 March – Tycoon Japanese Troupe with Tarrason and his slide from the roof
1896 February – The Condos and little Miss Una
1896 Nippon Yusen shipping company opens branch in London – begins operating its European Line
1896 April – The Akimoto Royal Troupe of Japanese start touring Britain
1896 November – Gingero’s trio of Tycoon Japs (last mention of Gingero)
1896 November – Akimoto Troupe back in Britain, from Brazil
1897 George Osborn (born in Japan in 1870 to Percival and Seto nee Ogawa Osborn) joins Okura Gumi in London
1897 Aug – first NYK liner from England to Japan – departs Southampton for Port Said, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kobe, Yokohama
1898 Kadono Juukuro is manager of Okura London Branch
1898 Kansai Trading Company open office in Manchester with S Ishiyama and Matsumoto Yonekichi
1898 December – The Andos Japanese Troupe arrive in Britain
1899 Extraterritoriality for British citizens in Japan ends.
March 1899 in The Era that the Mitsutas, troupe of Japanese jugglers, Kagami Lentari, Chiyokichi, Mdlle Omato and Takijiro, G Mitzuhara, Mdlle Tamamoto, Yesokichi and T Mitsuta were appearing at the Empire Theatre in Barrow in Furness. Along with Miss Pattie Transfield, Funny Paddy and Silent Murphy, Two Agousts, P.J. Durney and Misery.[1]
[1] The Era, 4th March 1899, p 23
1899 May – Maruichi Brothers in Sheffield with Royal English Circus, Sentarro and Gintarro, real native Japanese jugglers and top spinners
1899 May – Barnum & Bailey in Britain included Unoski and Sampei, Kingiro, Nanakusi(a), Fukukita (Fukkita) and Toku/Toka, Takezawa.
1899 July – NYK liner service to London starts – Hakata Maru
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