1890 October Kitamura Fukumatsu (b 1852) from Osaka, forms Kitamura gumi of 5 people (Miyaoka p51), specialising in performances abroad.
Kitamura Fukumatsu was based in Hoboken NJ from 1889, with his wife Hisa.
1901 August – Prince Kitamura’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – 15 people. Ohio
1901 December – Prince Kitamura’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – 15 people. Massachusetts
1902 January – Kitamura Imperial Japanese Troupe New York, Massachusetts – June, August Michigan, October Ohio, December-January New York.
1904 April Buffalo Bill’s show arrived in Liverpool. 12 Japanese some of whom fought in the Sino-Japanese war.
1904 August – Kitamura Imperial Japanese Troupe 10 people Iowa State Fair
1904 October departed Liverpool for New York, for Buffalo Bill’s show. Kitamura Tora aged 28, his wife Kome aged 21, Chik Sano 38, Hashimoto Kiku 16, Kitamura Kiku 14, Kitamura Yoke 19, Terada Atsushi 21, Kitamura Masu 17, Kitamura Hachi 16 (female?), Kitamura Daiko 10
1905 November – arrived New York from Genoa – Kitamura Tora aged 29, Kome, Massa 18, Koman 19, Kiku 14, Kotoman 11, Daiko 12, Sano Shika 41 (Seno Shika), Hashi Terada 25, Kiku Hashimoto 18, Torikichi ?, Furukawa 28
By 1904-5 the Kitamura gumi had grown to 61 performers (Miyaoka).
1906 September Tera Kitamura, Tome Kitamura, Massa Kitamura (all single adult males) departed for New York from England. Sinco and Seico Fukushima (boys under 12) and Bun Furukawa and Atsushi Terada in the same group.
1910 February – Philadelphia
1912 March – Ontario, Canada, Koman and Tommy Kitamura, Risley act
1913 December – 1914 January – Japanese equilibrists and acrobats – Hamilton, Canada
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