1894 March – Fukushima Tsunezo 常蔵 and 3 others depart Japan for USA
1897 April – in Havana, Cuba
1897 May – Fukushima Royal Japanese troupe will probably be the opening attraction. Fitchburg Massachusetts
1898 Susan Watanabe, daughter of Seishu Watanabe, born in Paris
1898 August – Hamburg
1899 August – Berlin
1899 September – Saale – equilibrists, jugglers – 8 people
1899 October – Cologne
1899 November – 6 people Duisburg. Kikuda also performing as juggler, and the Okabes.
1900 July – Netherlands
1900 October – Hamburg
1900 December – February 1901- Fukushima Troupe of Royal Japanese artists appear at the Alhambra, London. Gaily attired in very pretty Jap costumes, perform some thrilling feats of rope climbing, one of the ladies does a slide for life.
But the most bizarre and the most picturesque of these performances is that of the Fukushima Royal Japanese Troupe. In their many-coloured costumes with their curious faces like old ivory and eyes sparkling like black brilliants, their mere appearance would form an attraction. Two of their number, however, are really wonderful performers, and their feats have the additional charm of novelty.
One of these, a youth, appears with a long, thick, flexible rope which is at first partly coiled round his body. At each end in a sort of loop are loosely inserted two shallow open metal basins filled with water. Standing in the centre of the stage, he commences gently to swing these basins round and round his body with ever-lengthening rope ; then, as though wearied with so easy a task, he draws in rope and swings them now over one shoulder, now over another; then, raising a foot, he sends the metal pans flying between his legs, over his head, to right, to left, and again lengthening the rope to its utmost extent, he accelerates the motion until the two vessels are flying round and round so fast that one can hardly follow with the eye the course of either. Finally, he again draws in his rope, and, with a few graceful and declining rotatory motions, the vessels are at his feet. Not a drop of water has been spilt.
The other performance which interested me is that of a lady among the troupe. With a fan in one hand and a mirror in the other she simply walks up a rope attached to a hook in the stage and a hook in the woodwork of the theatre, somewhere about the base of the topmost box. As she passes upward above one’s head one notices a development of the great toe which would be quite abnormal in a European. With ‘this she clasps and encloses the rope, feeling probably quite secure on what seems to us so perilous a journey. I should doubt if this performance were possible without these prehensile toes. I believe that such a development is common among the Japanese and other far-Eastern nations, who use the toes of the feet almost interchangeably with the fingers of the hands. The descent of this lady from her lofty coign of vantage, fanning herself in gentle unconcern as she speeds erect down the rope, is a joy to behold. (Truth February 7th 1901)
1901 April census – Seishu Watanabe aged 34, Kikuzo Satto aged 21, Yesuki Fukushima 17, Tatsu Fukushima aged 21 (female), Soichi Fukushima 13, Shikazo Sano 33. All music hall artists, single, living in 5 Archer Street, West Hartlepool – they were performing at the Gaiety Theatre there.
Tora Fukushima, married, female, 22, Tsuneo male, 1 month old, born in London, Sussy, female, 3 years old, born in France. Boarding in Soho, London.
1901 April – Hartlepool — Fukushima Japanese Troupe, Kyoto contortionist, triple ladder and Risley act.
1901 April 19 – performed at the Japan Society with members of the Nishihama troupe, Maruichi Sentaro
1901 November – Fukushima and Soichi ladder, Fukushima Troupe – The Hague
1902 April – Fukushima Troupe, whoso unique gymnastic achievements render their performance one of surpassing interest.
1902 May – Advertised as the Foo Choo Shimas
1902 August – Fukushima Troupe of jugglers were most enthusiastically received.
1902 December – Fukushima troupe in Austria
1903 Sado Maru – J or T Nakagawa – Family of the Rope (acrobat), dancer, Fukushima, male, K Watanabe male, dancer
1903 February – An interesting and clever exhibition is given here this week by the Fukushima Troupe of Japanese artists . Their feats are decidedly novel , and with extraordinary agility and neatness (Huddersfield)
1903 April – The Fukushima Troupe of Japanese performers present a clever pot pourri act, comprising acrobatics, juggling, tumbling, &c (Aberdeen)
1903 April – Fukushima Troupe in Netherlands
1903 July – Troupe Fukushima in Paris
1903 July in Brussels
1903 October – Dresden
Then became the Lukushima Troupe
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