1848 born in Japan of Mazuono Kotaki, a silk manufacturer. . Possibly the actual family name was Ono, and given name Mazu (?), and his father was part of the Ono-gumi, or Ono Silk Filature Company of Tokyo. The Ono-gumi went bankrupt in 1874.
1867 Matsui Gensui Troupe in London – Kotaki (also Kakichi) is said to be 19, and a bamboo walker.
1867 August – Kotaki on the bamboo in France
1867 photograph in Cologne
Above photograph taken in Marseille
1868 April – Italy – a troupe member arrested for trying to rape a young girl – as Kotaki’s name does not appear again as part of Matsui Gensui troupe, it may have been Kotaki.
1875 Solo in Dresden
1876 in Prague and Leipzig as a man monkey
1877 in Karlsruhe as Kotaky
1878 January – “a wonderful gymnast”, “Pongo Redivivus” “Japanese Kotaki” in London theatres.
1878 February – is doubled booked at Oxford and taken to court. Kotaky, able to speak many tongues, including German and Japanese but not English
1878 July – Manchester – Pongo Redivivus
1878 November – marries 29 year old Eliza Lisette Wiedmann (b 1849 in Germany) in Woolwich registry office
1879 July – Pongo the great Japanese Man Monkey in London. Advertised by Parravicini as touring Madrid, Barcelona and Portugal
1884 March – Japanese Pongo appears with James Dubois, Assa Kitchee in Manchester.
1886 August – may have been Pongo the man monkey performing at the Crystal Palace with the Torikata troupe of Japanese acrobats
1886 December – Sanger’s Circus in Bristol as Pongo Redivivus
1887-1888 touring Britain solo
1896 January – les Japonais equilibristes (four people) – Ko-Ta-Ki – Toulouse with Raffin’s monkeys.
1897 February – Les Kotaki, acrobats Japonais in France
1897 July – “incomparable Kotaki” at an equestrian circus in Barcelona, along with Japanese juggler Ando Gingero
1911 Eliza Lisette Wiedmann dies in Paris
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