1850 Kikuta Daijiro born
1878 – Kikuta Suketaro born (according to US Census)
1879 April – G Kikuta in a hotel in Vienna
1884 November – Kikuta Godaiou in Leipzig (Leipziger Tageblatt 14 November p12) Probably Godayu
1885 May – Kikuta Daijeiro Imperial Japanese juggler – The Hague
1885 15 November – Kikuta Godaiou in Leipzig (Leipziger Tageblatt p26)
1886 January – Kikuta Godajou Saale/Halle
1886 June – Kikuta Daijiro resident in Berlin married Amanda Ringkowski (daughter of ship owner Christoph Friedrichs Erdmann Ringkowski) in Berlin. Notice is “son of Japanese officer Jenson Kikuta and his wife Messa Kikuta, both deceased in Tokyo.”
1886 August – Japanese juggler Kikuta Godayou in Stockholm
1886 September – KIKUTA GODAYOU, Japanese Equilibrist and Fantasist – Amsterdam
1887 March – Kikuta Godaju in Strasbourg, equilibrist, Bataclan
1887 September – Berlin – world-famous Japanese juggler Kikuta Godaju, a wonder of the Orient.
1888 May – Kikuta Daijiro – Imperial Japanese juggler – The Hague
1888 December – March 1889 Kikuta Diaziro/Daijiro Middlesex Music Hall London, Peckham, Brighton – Japanese court juggler “lacks novelty”
1889 May – Kikuta Daiziro – Equilibrist – Paris
1889 September Kikuta Daiziro – Japanese juggler – Hamburg
1889 October – juggling of Kikuta in Narbonne
1892 June – in Sweden
1893 Mr Gringero and Kikuta – bamboo pole balancing Leipzig
1894 January – Dresden – Royal Tycoon Japanese troupe, 5 people. Dresdner Journal, Königlich Sächsischer Staatsanzeiger 2 January 1894 p 6 Gingero and Kikuta
1894 Kikutas with their ladder productions – Dresden
1898 February – Kikuta Suketaro and one other go to France from Japan. 演芸
1900 August – September Okabes with Prince Kikuta, juggler Liverpool
1901 August – Gentaro Kikuta Solingen – Solinger Kreis-Intelligenzblatt 14 Aug p 4
1901 August – S. Kikuta in Rotterdam (who knows(?) the Okabes)
1901 December – Prince Kikuta with Okabes in Birkenhead
1902 February – Gentaro Kikuta in Prague
1902 April Gentaro Kikuta – juggler – Elberfeld – Walder Zeitung
1902 August – Gentaro Kikuta in Moravia – juggler
1903 Jan – Feb – Gentaro Kikuta in Strasbourg, Mannheim – juggler
1903 October Senkichi Okabe (31) leaves London for Kobe on the Tamba Maru with Sukitaro Kikuda (20) (presumably same as Suketaro Kikuta of Riogoku troupe), Takataro Okabe (24) Umekichi Kimura (22), Ofuku Okabe (female 14), Osute Okabe (female 11), Kiku Kawakami (male 38)
1904 November – Hamamura leader of Riogoku troupe in Berlin, 8 people
1905 January – Stuttgart – Teasing juggler Kikuta, with the Riogoku troupe. Schwäbischer Merkur 3 January p 16 Kikuta “who belongs to the Riogoku Family”
1905 March – ?itara Kikuta juggler – Graz, Austria
1906 Kikuta, juggler, with Riogokus
1907 May – S. Kikuta in Hamburg and Halle with Riogokus – Kotaro Oharu and Ishi
1908 January – Suketaro Kikuta aged 29 marries Maki Hamamura in London. Father is Kunitaro Kikuta, music hall artiste.
1909 manager of Hamamura Troupe.
1911 April – Hamamuras in Berlin (8 people)
1911 September – 7 people – Leipzig
1911 October – Hamako Kikuda born in Hamburg
1911 November – Hamamura Family in Hamburg
1912 March – Hamamura family in Duesseldorf
1913 January – in Hamburg
1913 September – in Hamburg and Cologne
1914 August – in Hamburg
1915 Suketaro’s wife Maki dies ages 29
1917 Left Britain for Japan with Yoshimura Sute of Okabes, with Suma (8 years old) and Hama (2 years old)
1919 October – Mr S Kikuda, 42, artist [Suketaro], Mrs S Kikuda 26 [Koto Hamamura] 2 daughters 10 and 8, [Masuko and Hamako] Mrs M Hamamura [Nui Soga] wife, 26, master Hamamura 8 [Tamotsu], Miss N Sakamaki 9, Miss M Iwanami 10 [Mitsuko]
1920 October – Lucien Suke Kasa, son of Suketaro Kikuta and Koto Hamamura born in France
1920 December – Kikuta Family provide a series of marvellous Japanese juggling and Risley acts. 8 Japanese acrobats including 2 girls.
1921 May – Newcastle
1921 June – The Famous Kikutas (successors of the Hamamura family)
1921 June census – in a Sheffield boarding house Kumeji Deguchi male 33, Kotaro Deguchi male 42, Koto Kikuta female 27, Suketaro Kikuta male 44, Shigetaro Kikuta male 34, Hanako Kikuta female 9, Masuko Kikuta female 15, Mitsuko Iwawami female 14, Echi Shimizu male 16, Toyo Kashiwakura male 19, baby Deguchi female b 1920. In Sheffield boarding house. Music Hall artists. Will next be in Rotherham
1921 June – The Kikutas – an unrivalled Japanese juggling act – Rotherham Hippodrome.
1921 August – Sheffield
1922 January – 8 Kikutas – Accrington
1922 January – France, Nouveau Cirque
1922 Kikutas in Germany
1922 December – the Famous Kikutas in Scotland – 2 little Japanese girls juggling, then becoming a human merry go round on a pole balanced on a male Kikuta’s foot.
1923 January – Kikuta Family of Japanese players, some whose feats are almost incredible, in their quickness of eye and nimbleness of limb. Aberdeen
1923 April – 8 Kikutas – Zoo Circus France
1923 December – Paris Alhambra
1924 January – in the USA
1924 January – Hamamura and Riogoku troupes in Berlin
1930 US Census – Kikuta Suketaro, 45, actor, Kikuta Masuko 20, actress, Kikuta Hamako, 18, actress, Deguchi Kotaro, 51, actor, single, Deguchi Kumeji 40, actor, married, Deguchi Hina, 39, actress, married, Fujii Genjiro, single, 27, Matsuoka Joji, single, Kikuta Kenji, 17, Toyotaro Kashiwakura, 27, actor, Iwakami Mitsui, 21, actress in Brooklyn, New York.
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