Overview
In Britain: First troupe from July 1870 – June 1871, then tour Europe, possibly USA, India, then some return to Britain June 1872 as Dragon and Tycoon Troupes. Second troupe from 1876.
Proprietors: Thomas King had obtained 14 passports for troupe to tour Hong Kong for 3 years in 1869. Thomas King hires second troupe in 1872 of 13 people to tour Britain, but actually go to India and Australia first as the Royal Tycoon Troupe. Some eventually arrive in Britain in 1876 as the Great Original Tycoon Japanese Troupe, others continue in Australia as Tycoon Troupe until 1880s.
Troupe members: 1870-1871 15-16 performers including Foo Gee Kitchee (Fujikichi) Wonder of Yeddo balancer, 5 boy contortionists – Koo Ma Kitchee, Ca Na Kitchee, Kin Ta, Mo To To and Ha Sa, Oh Sa Wah (Sawa, female, flight of the butterflies), Eso Kitchee (Isokichi) (juggler and equilibrist), Oh Ra To (probably Matsui Yoshigorō), top spinner, Mo Ko So, juvenile rope walker aged 9 and Namenoski (Naminosuke), foot balancer, ladder feats, rope walker.
1876 5 performers including Gin Goro Jack (Gingero), Fousah Ketchey, As Sa Ma Ki, Yama Moto, Moto Ketchie, Como Ketchey. 1877 acts include Japanese Drawing-room Games, Dancing Umbrellas on the Feet. Dancing Tubs, Tight-rope Feats, Swinging Bamboos, Nondescript Prestidigitateurs, Block Building, Yousawaka Building, &c., Feet Balancing, Japanese Bamboo-cane Balancing, Barrell Dancing, Pyramid Building, Siamese Calisthenics.
By 1881 Tycoon Troupe in Britain is led by Gingero, and consists of Motokichi, Asakichi and James Dubois.
By the late 1880s the troupe is a Royal Tycoon Trio, of Gingero and his children. Also Tycoon Japanese Brothers – Motokichi, Asakichi etc.
Briefly renamed the Mikado Troupe 1889-90
The name Tycoon Japs/Tycoon Japanese/Tycoon Troupe of Japanese etc continues in use in Britain until 1898.
Timeline
1869 September – First group – 13 passport records for a three year tour to Hong Kong, in the employment of a British man, Thomas King:
Naminosuke aged 45, foot equilibrist, Mitsu, his wife aged 36, accompanist, Genji, Naminosuke’s son, aged 12, acrobat, Kanekichi, Naminosuke’s son, aged 7, acrobat.
Fujikichi aged 38, block piling, Fusa, aged 38, wife of Fujikichi, accompanist, Kumakichi, son of Fujikichi, aged 12, acrobat, Asajirō, son of Fujikichi, aged 11, acrobat
All above employed in Osaka by Kamekichi
From Tokyo Asakusa: Matsui Yoshigorō, 39, Matsui Gensui XV aged 36, top spinner, Moto 茂登 aged 38 (or 41), Sawa, daughter of Moto, aged 18 (or 21), accompanist, Kinjurō, son of Moto, aged 8 (or 11), acrobat from Asakusa, Isojirō’s shop/house
From Osaka: Torakichi aged 36 (or 38), propsman
From Yokohama: Isokichi aged 52.
1869 October – departed Yokohama, toured Hong Kong, India, Germany according to letter from Minister of 1872.
1870 January – Ship wrecked off Sarawak, from Manila, then to Singapore. Mr & Mrs King and a Mr Page. arrived in Sarawak with Mr Page – from Manila – their ship the Sunshine was wrecked nearby, damaging their apparatus. Then went on to Singapore.
1870 from Singapore to Calcutta
1870 March – Royal Tycoon Troupe of Japanese in Madras and then Calcutta “under the management of Mr King”
1870 July – Royal Tycoon Troupe at the Alhambra and then the Crystal Palace, with Tycoon’s Top Private Spinner. as selected by the tycoon to exhibit before Duke of Edinburgh at Yeddo – pedal balancer, female rope walker, ladder, tub equilibrist, 15 male and female
1870 August – Royal Tycoon’s Private Troupe (First group) – Foo Gee Kitchee walking in the air, Namemensski, Oh Ra To.
1870 September – Parravicini and Corbyn announce that they are the sole and exclusive agents of “this most remarkable and talented company of 16 Japanese artistes”
1870 October – at the Curzon Hall Birmingham
1870 November – Isojirō, Isokichi’s brother has 1 year passport for troupe for Shanghai. Frederick Page, the employer states 10 people to go to China, Europe, Australia. Departs January 1871.
1870 November – December – London – Metropolitan. Two juveniles tumbling. 8 small tubs and barrel balancing on feet of adult. Pole balancing on shoulder with a boy on a stand on top of it. Double ladder with adult and boy. A lady fanned butterflies, a man and a little girl performed top spinning. Boy contortionist on a pile of small boxes, another boy performed somersaults. Funny grey whiskered hoarse voiced man introduced.
1871 Jan-Feb – tour Rotherham, Ashton, Brighouse, Leeds. 11 names given in billings for troupe of 15. Foo Gee Kitchee Wonder of Yeddo balancer, greatest sensational pedal balancer ever witnessed, 5 boy contortionists – Koo Ma Kitchee, Ca Na Kitchee, Kin Ta, Mo To To and Ha Sa,/Oh Ra To and Mo Ko So and the fine wonderful Japanese boys, Namenoski and his ladder feats, Oh Sa Wah (the only legitimate female Japanese artiste, flight of the butterflies), Eso Kitchee (juggler and equilibrist), Oh Ra To, top spinner, Mo Ko So, juvenile rope walker aged 9 and Namenoski, foot balancer, ladder feats, rope walker.
1871 February 4th – Fujikichi dies aged 39 of a tropical abscess of the liver and pyaemia (blood poisoning from the abscess). Buried in Southwark.
1871 March – May – “King’s Royal Tycoon Troupe” tours Manchester, Barnsley, Bradford, Huddersfield, Macclesfield. Fifteen artistes – “Five wonderful Japanese boys” (Koo Ma Kitchee, Ca Na Kitchee, Kin Ta, Mo To To and Ha Sa) performing as contortionists. Oh Sa Wah the first legitimate female artiste from Japan performing butterfly illusions. Eso Kitchee the inimitable Japanese juggler and equilibrist, Oh Ra To the Tycoon’s Private Top Spinner, Namenoski sensational ladder acts. Foo Gee Kitchee continues to be billed as the great shoulder balancer. Mo To juvenile wire walker, To Ro Kitchee single bamboo.
1871 April – Dewsbury – Royal Tycoon Troupe – a youth – Foo Gee Kitchee – on a suspended bamboo – cord broke and he fell into the footlights and rolled into the orchestra. Found one of the pipes from the gaslight had entered between his ribs and another had entered the anterior of his thigh.
1871 May/June – finish tour of Britain, start tour of Europe and the USA
1871 September – Arnhem – NAMENOSKI, first equilibrist. TO RA KITCHEE, accuracy specialty. OH RA TO, court top spinner to the Tycoon. Famous Salon artists Gin Geron and Jeddo. ESO KITCHÉE , clown and magician, never seen before, performing 6 turns. COO MA KITCHÉE , CA NA KITCHÉE, MO KO SO, HA SA, KIN TA Artists who perform the latest and most surprising turns. OH SA WA, OH MIT SA, OH SOO SA, OH CAN SA The only Japanese ladies who can leave Japan.
1871 October – The Japanese acrobats quietly left Leeuwarden for Germany, without paying the advertising and printing costs, and kept the audience waiting in vain in the theater.
Provinciale Overijsselsche en Zwolsche courant 17 October
1872 January – Hamburg – 15 people – Gio Kitchee, Nomenoski, To Ra Kitchee, Gin Gero, Yo Schee Goro, Yeddo, To Ro Kitchee, Rin Zo, Ha Sa, Ca Na Kitchee (all male). Oh Mit Sa, Oh Mo To, Oh Foo Sa, Oh Sa Wa (all female) Coo Mo Kitchu (male) with Mr & Mrs King in a hotel. (Hamburger Fremdenblatt 27 Jan p4)
Photo above possibly of Matsui Gensui XV/ Matsui Yoshigorō, aged 36, top spinner, Moto aged 38, Sawa, daughter of Moto, aged 18, accompanist, Kinjurō, son of Moto, aged 8, acrobat
Kinjuro? Naminosuke? (Robert Sayers Collection)
Below could be Fusa, Kumakichi. Dammann photos from Hamburg. (Robert Sayers collection) Back of photo definitely has Fusa written on it, maybe Kumakichi, Namigoro? Yamamoto?
1872 May – Matsui Yoshigorō asks Isokichi and King for money for return fares to Japan for himself and three others. No money forthcoming so made way back to London and asked Japanese minister Terashima Munenori for assistance.
Page’s troupe become Mikado troupe and tour S.E. Asia May -July 1872 then to Vienna World Fair May-Oct 1873
1872 September – October – Charles Crosby’s American acrobats and troupe of Japanese performers – Berlin
1873 February – Matsui and three others from the first group return to Yokohama
1873 February – Charles Crosby’s American acrobats and troupe of Japanese performers – Berlin
1873 April – Charles Crosby’s Great Royal Tycoon Troupe of Japanese – Gdansk https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/publication/585850/edition/556748/content
1873 May- October Vienna World Fair – Page’s troupe appears.
1873 October – in Rostock – Con-no, Can-no, Gin-ge-ro, Namenoski, Mo-to-to
[1874-1876 – with Myers Circus in Europe?]
1874 May – June Czechoslovakia – mentions of Japanese in the Myers circus
1875 June – Myers Circus – in Znojmo/Znaim, – Japanese court artists Mo-to and Assa, acrobatics, Gin-Gero and Ko-mo-Kitsche, on the bamboo cane are amazing. Znojmo weekly paper June 26, 1875 p 4
1875 June – Of particular interest are the Japanese
court artists Mo-to and Assa, who achieve extraordinary feats in the field of acrobatics, and the Japanese Gin-Gero
and Ko-mo-Kitsche, whose productions on the bamboo Moravian Correspondent. Brno: G. Gastl, 24.06.1875,
15 (142), p. 4
1876 June – Brothers Moto and Assa, Gingero and Como Ketchey, the Japanese wonders at Myers’s Hippodrome, Crystal Palace, London
1876 November – Great Original Tycoon Japanese Troupe tour Britain. Gin Goro, Komo Ketchey, managed by Henry William Wieland, a theatrical agent.
1876 December – “The Royal Crystal Palace Tycoon Japanese Troupe” Gin Goro Jack, Fousah Ketchey, As Sa Ma Ki, Yama Moto, Moto Ketchie, Como Ketchey in Paisley. Feet Balancing. Barrell Dancing. Pyramid Building. Siamese Calisthenics. Bamboo Cane Balancing. Nondescript Prestidigitateurs. Ladder Balancing. Japanese Drawing-Room Games. Dancing Umbrellas on the feet. Dancing Tub.
1877 January – Walter Brown takes over as agent of the troupe
1877 January -Tycoon Troupe of Burmese and Japanese performers, Stoodley and Harmston’s circus, Norwich.
1877 January – Tycoon troupe of Japanese jugglers and acrobats, Manchester, Cooke’s Circus, bamboo pole balancing.
1877 February – Royal Tycoon Troupe of Japanese, Liverpool. 5 in number, Walter Brown, manager. New and Wonderful Performance on the Lofty Bamboo
1877 March – “Sar Gengero, the Fakir of Yeddo” appears with the “Celebrated Royal Tycoon Troupe of Japanese” in Australia along with Bungaro, Itchia, Coma Kitche.
1877 March – Tycoon Troupe of Japanese, Yass, NSW
1877 March – Royal Tycoon Troupe of Japanese and Burmese performers – Hanley, Liverpool
1877 April – Tycoon Japanese Troupe in London “the doings of the Tycoon Japanese troupe, introduced by an elderly Japanese lady, who has a tongue which she knows how to use, we have very recently referred, and it is only necessary to say that their extraordinary feats of rope-walking, balancing, and tumbling continue to meet with the warmest marks of approbation.” The Era
1877 May-August – Tycoon Japanese Troupe in Fleetwood, Blackpool
1877 October provincial tour Royal Tycoon Japanese Troupe – Manager Walter Brown. Starting in Dundee “The original Tycoon Japanese” head to head with Tannaker. “A Japanese lady provided a description of each feat in her native language, which causes great laughter” “King of Bamboo”
1877 November – Tycoon Japanese Troupe in Glasgow
1877 December – Stoodley and Harmston circus – Tycoon Troupe of Japanese, Leicester and Northampton, featuring Japanese Drawing-room Games, Dancing Umbrellas on the Feet. Dancing Tubs, Tight-rope Feats, Swinging Bamboos, Nondescript Prestidigitateurs, Block Building, Yousawaka Building, &c., Feet Balancing, Japanese Bamboo-cane Balancing, Barrell Dancing, Pyramid Building, Siamese Calisthenics. 100 Japanese the articles will be given away.
1878 February-March – Great Japanese Tycoon Troupe – London, Liverpool “The Original Royal Tycoon Troupe of Japanese are still on the War Path, re-engaged to appear in London”
1878 March – September – Japanese Tycoon Troupe at Great Hippodrome and Exhibition, Paris
1878 October – Royal Tycoon Troupe of Japanese in Manchester
1879 January 12 – just concluded 6 months at Hippodrome, Paris. Now at Moss’s Theatre, Edinburgh. Monday next, Scotia, Glasgow. To follow, Star, Liverpool. Walter Brown “GMB I am on your path” The Era – Sunday 12 January 1879 p17
1879 January 17 – Scotia, Glasgow – 5 in number
1879 February – Royal Japanese Tycoon Troupe at Royal Aquarium London with Pongo Redivivus. Liverpool “some members of the troupe lacking the Japanese cast of countenance”
1879 February – Tycoon Japanese Troupe in Hong Kong – Tora Kitchie on wire, Eva Kitchie, little girl doing gymnastics and balancing and May Kitchie bending and contortion
1879 May-July – “Gingero’s great Tycoon troupe of Japanese” tour Leamington Spa, Bradford, Fleetwood, Myers’ American Circus in Leicester, Birmingham and Wolverhampton – five in number.
1879 May – tight wire entertainment given by Gingero’s Japanese at Myers’ Circus, Liverpool “was as fine as anything we have seen”
1879 August-November – touring France
1879 November – Tycoon Troupe of Japanese, including Little Todd, the German Wonder. – Bradford
1880 January – Royal Tycoon Japanese Troupe in Glasgow – ladder balancing, acrobatic and bamboo manipulations
1880 January – The Oriental Marvels Royal Tycoon Japanese, with the Greatest Living Wonder, Little Todd. Walter Brown manager. Hull then Liverpool.
1880 February – Sheffield and Cheltenham. Best display of posters of any troupe travelling.
1880 March – Cardiff Circus. Japanese troupe from the Paris Hippodrome. Little Todd. Barrel balancing, ladder balancing
1880 April – Paris Les Tycoon Troupe Japonaise
1880 April – Paris – Oriental Marvels, Folie Bergere, Little Todd, the original marvel, Mons Daijano, man serpent, Ginger and Nama Meichey, Greatest Bamboo Perch Performers in the World, Jama Moto Great Rope Walker and Assa Meichey champion tumbler. All my troupe are together again, greater than ever, Manager Walter Brown.
1880 May – June – London – Royal Forester’s Mile End. Engagement at Great Cost of Royal Tycoon Japanese Troupe. Feet balancing, bamboo balancing, pyramid building, juggling etc. One member of troupe certainly not a native of Japan – duo performing ladder act, one is “youthful”.
1880 July – 3 months at the Winter Garden, Blackpool. Five in number – bamboo cane, la perche, Sliding Rope, balancing, juggling &c
1880 October – December Royal Tycoon Japanese Troupe in Riga, Russia.
1880 December – Tycoon Troupe of Japanese have been retained for the holidays – Manchester
1881 January – Huddersfield – Barrel Dancing Pyramid Building Bamboo ladder Balancing Nondescript Acrobatic Acts
1881 January – Belfast – The Great Tycoon Japanese Troupe of Oriental Specialities (five in number) “at enormous expense”
1881 February – Edinburgh – four in number
1881 March – Glasgow, then Preston, then Warrington. Walter Brown “musical agent” “required a good artist”
1881 March – Harmston’s new circus – Warrington – Engagement extraordinary, and for One Week Only, of THE ROYAL TYCOON JAPANESE TROUPE, In their wonderful Acrobatic Feats, High Rope Walking, Barrel and Pyramid Manipulating, Bamboo and Ladder Balancing as performed by them by special command before the Prince of Wales and Suite.
1881 April – census – John Gingero, Annie, Centero (3), Fuzzer Annie (1) at 59 Percy Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, with Motokichi (24), Asakichi (16) and James Dubois (14 – actually 12). With Myers Circus in Newcastle.
1881 May – J. Gingero Director of Royal Tycoon Japanese Troupe. At Ashton under Lyne. 4 in number.
1881 June – Royal Tycoon Japanese Troupe, Leicester
1881 July – London
1881 August – Leeds – Royal Tycoon Troupe of Jugglers, Vaulters, acrobats. “the boy who does the Pongo business being a little marvel” at Leicester
1881 September – “The Wonderful Tycoon Troupe of Real Japanese, in their Marvellous Feats. Pongo the Great Japanese Man Monkey” Walter Brown.
1881 September – Liverpool – Harmston’s circus -Tycoon Troupe of Japanese have given so much satisfaction they have been engaged for another week
1881 October – November – Dublin, return of the Tycoon Troupe of Real Japanese. Walter Brown back advertising – celestial wonder workers, high rope ascending, bamboo and ladder perche balancing, extraordinary acrobats
1881 December – Yarmouth – engaged from Amsterdam at great expense. George Pinder Le Grand Cirque Royal d’Angleterre
1882 peak mentions of “tycoon troupe” in British press
1882 January – Tycoon Troupe with Harmston’s circus in Barrow
1882 January – split with Walter Brown, four in number “we have no more connection with Walter Brown… a good agent communicate at once”
1882 March – Keith’s Grand Circus in Bradford
1882 March – Alhambra Palace Blackburn including PONGO PONGO PONGO
1882 August – Shrewsbury with Oh My
1882 October – Preston with Pongo the Japanese Man Monkey
1882 December – London
1883 April – Royal Tycoon Troupe of Real Japanese – Sheffield
1883 June – London – Tycoon Troupe, Japanese Wonders
1883 October – in Berlin – Gingero Truppe Berliner Börsen-Zeitung 25 October – p 10
1883 December – Glasgow
1884 January – February – Royal Tycoon Japanese Troupe 3 in number. Belfast, Sunderland then Liverpool. Need good tumbler.
1884 April – Sam Hague’s combination company – The Great Tycoon Japanese Company – in Belfast. Gingero, Hosakitchee and Komakitchee (the Japanese monkey) first appeared at the Crystal Palace in 1865 (should be 1870?). Bamboo balancing perch, trick ladder, Japanese tumbling act. Possibly a burlesque and not the real troupe.
1884 August – Comer Kitchey, just arrived from Japan. Late of the celebrated Tycoon Troupe of Japanese. At Harrogate, with Tycoon Troupe.
1884 August – November – Rochdale, Liverpool, London, Brighton
1884 September – Singaro’s Japanese Troupe, Star Music Hall, Dublin.
1885 January – February – Royal Tycoon Troupe of Japanese in Liverpool at the Rotunda . February 9th “previous to their departure for America” “smallest Japanese performer in the world” will appear. Alfred Montgomery of London claims to be agent for Tycoon Japanese.
1885 March – Royal Tycoon Troupe of Japanese with Cooke’s Circus in Liverpool
1885 March – “smallest Japanese performer in the world” – probably Fuzzer Annie aged 5. Tycoon Japanese Troupe (six in number) with Pongo the Gorilla, Komakitchee in his great barrel performance. Mozey Binzie Arabian Wonder. Cardiff
1885 March – April Troupe of 6 Japanese Tycoons, Aston. Newsome’s Hippodrome and Circus
1885 May – Walsall – Imperial Tycoon Japanese Troupe, Bilston. Richard Warner now agent for Tycoon Japanese.
1885 June – Royal Tycoon Japanese Troupe – Leigh, Gloucester
1885 July – Fuzzer Gingero in Middlesbrough with the Tycoon Japanese Troupe. Pongo, Komakitchee.
1885 August 30 – Tycoon Troupe at Japanese Village, Newcastle. At intervals during the time of the fair, performances will be given by the Tycoon Troupe of Japanese, Prof Bailey’s Royal Punch and Judy show, John Le Clair, Mons Aseiky, and other artistes. Newcastl
1885 August 17 – Tycoon Troupe in Great Yarmouth Royal Aquarium (6 in number)
1885 August 30 – Japanese Tycoon Troupe at Japanese Village Fair in Newcastle (last mention in British press until December 1886)
1885 August 30 – to September 1 – Japanese Royal Tycoon Truppe at Kaufmann’s Variety Theatre, Berlin (Berliner Börsen-Zeitung p 8 1 September 1885)
1885 September – W. Brown Manchester asks Tycoon Japanese to contact him in The Era
September 1885 to January 1886 GAP
1885 October – Comelli’s newly arrived Japanese troupe of jugglers, acrobats and equilibrists/Camelli’s Imperial Japanese Novelty – to November. San Francisco
1886 January – Royal Gingero – 10 artists – Berlin
1886 March – Royal Tycoon Troupe in Madras then at the Alfred Theatre in Bombay, India
1886 April – in Znaim. Japanesischen Gesellschaft Gingero Circus Frankloff
1886 May – Original Japanese troupe Gingero – consisting of four people and two children – Baden – Prussia
1886 June – “Two Japanese Gingero – one of which performed on a pole” Marburg – Prussia
July – Sep GAP
1886 October – a Japanese troupe of 16 people in Duesseldorf
1886 November Original Japanese troupe Gingero Budapest
1886 December – January 1887 – Royal Tycoon Troupe at the Queen’s Music Hall, London
1887 February – Wonderful Japanese Tycoon Troupe – Bedford Theatre, London
1887 April – September – Tycoon Gingero and his Marvellous Children, late of the Tycoon Japanese Troupe, Scarborough
1887 June Japanese gymnasts Gingero and his clever little children – Scarborough
1887 October – Motto Kitchee Royal Tycoon Japanese in Scarborough, Royal Tycoon Japanese Trio in Plymouth with Ginnett’s Circus (Gingero’s Japanese exceedingly clever pole balancing tricks) then Paisley
1887 October – Royal Tycoon Japanese troupe Penang Town Hall Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 1 November 1887, Page 6
1887 November – Dundee, Royal Tycoon Japanese Trio Gingero with his jaw centre act.
1887 November – Royal Tycoon Japanese Trio Gingero and his beautiful children in Edinburgh Moss’s varieties
1887 December – Tycoon Trio/the Gingero troupe of acrobats at Sanger’s Circus in Cheltenham. The Tycoon Japanese are very skilled in their performance with the flying ladder
1888 January – TYCOON JAPANESE TRIO, GINGERO and his Beautiful Children, and Champion Perch Performers, now appearing at Tayleure’s Grand Circus, Bath
1888 April – wonderous Tycoon Japanese trio – London
1888 July – Tycoon Trio – London
1888 August – Malton
1888 August – Tycoon Japanese in Scarborough.
1888 September – Provincial Agency, Manchester, advertises Gingero‘s Tycoon Japanese Troupe in The Era
1888 March – October – Royal Tycoon Japanese Kitchee Brothers, rope walkers, bamboo performers and tumblers at Circus Born, Hungary
1888 September – Blackburn – the Gingero troupe send the house into uproarious laughter (Lyceum)
1888 October – Gingero and children – Leeds
1888 November – Original Tycoon Japanese Brothers – Motto Kitchee, Assa Kitchee and Ich Kitchee
1888 December – Royal Tycoon Japanese Trio – Gingero and his beautiful children Centero and Fuzzer, champion perche performers of the world, finished in Manchester with Quaglieni’s Circus. Royal Tycoon Japanese – Barrow in Furness with Fossett’s Grand Cirque, high rope walking and tumbling. Nottingham
1889 March – Tycoon Japanese being advertised by Messrs Wilder of Birmingham in the Era
1889 April – Tycoon Japanese – John Gingero and family – Liverpool bamboo and ladder.
1889 June – July – Tycoon Japanese being advertised by Messrs Wilder of Birmingham in the Era – rope walkers, acrobats, bamboo perche, ladder act, somersault throwers and jugglers
1889 June – Appearance of THE GINGER TRIO, Japanese Wonders, bamboo perche act, Ladder Act and real Japanese Tumbling Act. Northampton
1889 June – The Japanese Tycoon Wonders – Japino on the tight rope and the Keitchee brothers on the bamboo perche. Hinckley
1889 August – the Original Royal Tycoon Japanese Troupe will for future be known as the Great Mikado Troupe of Real Japanese, five in number, with Wilders.
1889 September – Tycoon Japanese Morecambe
1889 October – Motto Kitchee Royal Tycoon Japanese, rope walker and tumbler, circus, Huddersfield
1889 October – Tycoon Japanese at Nottingham Goose Fair.
1889 November – Tycoon Troupe of Real Japanese 5 in number at Moss Theatre, Glasgow, Leith with Cooke’s Royal Circus (also as Mikado Troupe)
1889 December – The Royal Tycoon Japanese Troupe of four – and the youngster who does the pole climbing seems to have but few bones in his anatomy (Glasgow Evening Post)
1890 January – Royal Tycoon Troupe in Jarrow, South Shields, Plymouth
1890 February Fossett’s Circus, York. The performance given by the Bros. Kitchee on the Japanese ladder is a decided novelty. Mons Kitchee’s antics on the high rope are pleasing to witness, and Master Tycoon cleverly manipulates while swinging from side to side at the top a tall bamboo cane, which is balanced the shoulder of his broyher. He is clever youngster, and possesses remarkable sang froid. The Tycoon troupe of Japanese give a good performance.
1890 March – Royal Tycoon Real Japanese Troupe – Sunderland. Five in number
1890 April- May – Royal Tycoon Japanese Troupe
1889 July – The Tycoon Troupe of Japanese are bewildering patrons this week – Bolton – Olympian Circus
1890 July – Tycoon Troupe of real Japanese five in number – Birkenhead – jugglery and acrobatic feats
1890 October – Mikado Troupe of real Japanese peformers Manchester
1890 November – Mikado Troupe of acrobats – Sunderland – 6 in number
1890 December – Tycoon Japanese Troupe at Ginnett’s Olympia, Hippodrome and Circus, Cork.
1891 April – Tycoon Japanese troupe in Bradford
1891 May – Royal Tycoon Troupe in Hartlepool
1891 June-July – Royal Tycoon Troupe in Dublin
1891 August – Tycoon Japanese troupe in Hull, Great Grimsby, Mons Gingero juggling. Five real Japanese
1891 September – Royal Tycoon Troupe in Wigan
1891 December – Royal Tycoon troupe of Japanese in Bradford and Wakefield
1892 January – Tycoon Japanese Troupe, Fossett’s Circus Merthyr Tydfil, Great Tycoon Japanese Troupe, Wombwell & Bailey, Birmingham, Royal Tycoon Japanese Troupe Ginnet’s Circus Norwich to February
1892 March/April – Tycoon troupe in Stuttgart – Neues Tagblatt und General-Anzeiger für Stuttgart und Württemberg 6 April 1892 p 2
1893 August Mr Gingero and Centu bamboo balancing. Hagen. Hagener Zeitung 10 August p 2
1893 August – Gingero troupe in Denmark
1894 January – Dresden – Royal Tycoon Japanese troupe, 5 people. Dresdner Journal, Königlich Sächsischer Staatsanzeiger 2 January 1894 p 6 Gingero and Kikuta
1894 February – in Denmark Gingero troupe
1894 April – Saale/Halle
1894 September – Cologne – Tokoi Gingero, Tycoon and Son
1894 September – Netherlands – Gingero and Son, the Magic Ladder. Gingero Troupe
1894 November – Royal Tycoon Troupe (Truppe) in Arnhem
1895 February – Tycoon Japanese Troupe, Chatham
1895 March – Tycoon Japanese Troupe, Gilbert’s Circus, Norwich, with Tarrason, Belfast
1895 April – Tycoon Troupe, Japanese acrobats and balancers, Portsmouth
1895 May – Tycoon Japanese Wonders, Woolwich
1895 July – Tycoon Troupe of Japanese jugglers – London
1895 August – Tycoon Troupe of Japanese Isle of Man
1895 October – Tycoon Japanese trio – Royal Aquarium, London. Chatham
1895 October – Mr Gingero, juggler in Dresden
1895 December – Tycoon Troupe/Trio, Sheffield
1896 January – Tycoon Japanese Trio, Newcastle, Glasgow
1896 February – famous Tycoon Troupe – Edinburgh
1896 April – Tycoon Japanese Trio – Plymouth
1896 May – Tycoon Troupe of Japanese Jugglers – Hammersmith
1896 June – July – The Tycoon Japanese Troupe of Oriental Oddities – Sadlers Wells, The Oxford
1896 June – Gingero and Kikutta in Leipzig Leipziger Tageblatt und Anzeiger, 10 June p 9
1896 October – November – Gingero’s Tycoon Japs – Wales – “very clever show of jugglery”
1897 November – Tycoon Japs – Birmingham
1897 December Tycoon Troupe of Japanese jugglers in Derbyshire
1898 February Tycoon Troupe of Japanese jugglers appears in Dick Whittington and his Cat in London
1902 May-August – Ireland “Tycoon troupe of real Japanese” W.H. Davies Paragon Circus
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