1884 March – four Japanese climbed like cats on a rope to the ceiling of the circus. One of them hung his legs on a floating trapeze, grasped a triangular frame from which three 4- to 5-meter-long rods hung loosely, and now the three others climbed, the oldest of whom may be 20 years old, the youngest 10 years old, Each of them held up one of these sticks and performed their hair-raising tricks on them. As far as we observed, the visitors to the circus were very approving of the performance. Torikata troupe with Frankloff Circus (Cologne)
1884 September – Frankloff announces in Neue Hess Blatter that he has a company of 120 people, including Arabs, Chinese, English, French, Russians, Negroes, Japanese, a ballet corps, elephants, lions, bears, leopards
1886 February – Frankloff circus in Austria – “Original Japanese troupe Gingero, consisting of four people and two children
1886 April – Japanese troupe with Frankloff in Krems, Austria
1886 May – Frankloff circus includes original Japanese troupe Gingero consisting of four people and two children (Badener Bezirks-Blatt, 4 May 1886 p 3)
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