Tetsuwari earliest evidence 1831 in Edo Tetsuwari Ichiza 一座 Kumazo 熊蔵 Yakichi 弥吉 – child performer Fukumatsu 福松 in Osaka in 1851 (Mihara p41)
Brought from Japan by Americans Mr Thomas T Smith, his wife Emma and Gustavus Willard Burgess. Burgess share bought out by Thomas Maguire to be his “left wing”. Headed by Fukumatsu.
Contract signed October 20th 1866, same day as Matsui Gensui/Torikata/Grant and Risley contracts
1866 October 29th Tetsuwari troupe and Mr and Mrs Smith and Burgess depart Japan
1866 November 30th arrive San Francisco
1866 – December playing at Maguire’s Academy of Music in San Francisco: Twelve in Number Lately Arrived from Jeddo. MAU-EEE-CHEE, YO-SHE-SKEE, FOO-KEE-MATS, TSRU-KEE-CHEE, RING-KEE-CHEE, SCH-IS-KEE, EYE-EE-NOS-KEE, SING-KEE-CHEE, KEE-SA-BORO, TOO-KU-HAY, KEE-CHEE-ROKU, and EYE-IS-KEE.
Poster p 140 of Schodt of Tetsuwari family shows 鉄割久吉 Hisakichi 新吉 Shinkichi 松吉 Matsukichi 源吉 Genkichi 政吉 Seikichi 義人 Yoshito
1867 February – left San Francisco with Maguire to perform in the Atlantic states and then on to Europe
1867 March – in Boston
1867 August – Maguire in dispute with Fukumatsu. Then dispute with Smiths over “Little All Right” who was actually Rinkichi.
1867 October – Maguire relinquishes control of the Tetsuwari troupe
Smith takes Tetsuwari troupe to Cuba
1904 Tetsuwari troupe in San Jose
In USA through to 1920
More (in Japanese) about the Tetsuwari Troupe members who settled in the USA here https://discovernikkei.org/ja/journal/2022/10/2/japanese-acrobats-2/
See also http://blog.livedoor.jp/misemono/search?q=%E9%89%84%E5%89%B2
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