1873 Imperial Troupe of Japanese jugglers – Washington DC
1884 February – Hayden & Philips Imperial Japanese Troupe – New York
1885 October – Alfred Comelli’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – San Francisco
1886 April – Imperial Japanese Troupe – Cuba
1888 November – Imperial Japanese Troupe – San Diego, San Jose, 10 jugglers, acrobats, tumblers and necromancers. Lofty balanced ladder. Top spinning. Including Three Little Allrights – Haverley’s Minstrels
1890 April – Imperial Japanese Troupe – Rock Island
1890 April – Fukino Imperial Japanese Troupe – 10 in number. Also the Lenton Bros. San Francisco
1890 September – Imperial Japanese Troupe – Seattle
1890 October – Imperial Japanese Troupe – Minneapolis
1890 November – Imperial Japanese Troupe St Louis
1890 December – January 1891 Yoneda Royal Japanese Troupe of jugglers, acrobats, balancers, equilibrists – New York.
1891 March – Kanotcha’s Imperial Japanese Troupe, imported directly for the Orpheum – 10 in number – San Franciso
1891 April – Paragon Theatre of Varieties, London with Paul Martinetti’s American Pantomime company Prince Yoneda’s Imperial Japanese Troupe
1891 May – Prince Yoneda’s Imperial Japanese troupe – 8 real Japanese acrobats, equilibrists, jugglers. First appearance in this country – Blackpool Winter Gardens. “a marvellous combination of acrobats, equilibrists, and jugglers. They are eight in number, the least being only a few years old, comparatively speaking. One of their best tricks is that where one lies on his back on a table, legs and feet erect, on which a ladder about 1ft. long is placed. Then the two youngest begin to climb the ladder, and on arriving at the top go through a wonderful performance, all the while resting and being balanced solely by the aid of the feet of the Japanese who is lying on the table.”
1891 June – July – Prince Yoneda’s Imperial Japanese troupe – after five months at the Eden Musee, New York – in Toronto, with “Tiny Japanese mite “smallest equilibrist in the world, dancers, jugglers, wire walkers, gymnasts, contortionists
1891 July – Yamasaki’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – New York Clipper
1891 August- September – Imperial Japanese Troupe – Napa, California
1891 September – Imperial Japanese Troupe – Massachusetts
1891 September – Zanettos calling themselves “imperial Japanese troupe” in Britain
1892 January – Imperial Japanese Troupe in Toronto
1892 February – Shintaro’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Ohio
1892 August – Imperial Japanese Troupe with the Condos in Glasgow
1892 August – Fukino’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – San Francisco
1892 August – Okabe’s Royal Imperial Japanese Troupe – five in number. Bamboo perch, boy and little girl, floor contortion little girl, wire walking boy, Japanese dance young girl, juggler, rope walking young girl, shoulder perch man and little girl, slide for life. Okabe, Matsunoski, Muyoshi, Ohanna, Oero. New York Clipper, 6 August p 16
1892 September – Dunn’s Imperial Japanese Troupe of Jugglers, etc., direct from the Mikado Palace theatre, Tokio. Japan – Toronto – Canada’s Great Fair
1892 October – Fukino’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Seattle
1892 November – K.O. Kabe’s Imperial Japanese Troupe advertising in New York Clipper, playing in Philadelphia
1892 December – Shintaro’s Imperial Japanese Troupe, Toronto, Canada.
1892 December – Oura’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – San Francisco. 7 in number including 1 Japanese lady
1892 December – display of juggling given by Imperial Japanese Troupe – Edinburgh
1893 February – The imperial Japanese Troupe of acrobats are heavily underlined on the current bill. They exploit national pastimes. Yamchie, Yamsake, Tazana, Kinzeno, Wonosge, Torkickie, Singerio , Tama and Tazana are the names of the respective members of the troupe. New York Clipper
1893 April – Dunne’s Imperial Japanese Troupe Illinois
1893 September – Imperial Japanese troupe in Toronto
1894 January – Royal Imperial Japanese Troupe – Massachusetts
1894 March – Shintaro’s Japanese troupe – New York
1894 April – 13 members of the Imperial Japanese Troupe – Redondo California
1894 December – Oano’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Rock Island
1895 March – Nippan Imperial Japanese Troupe – Kansas City
1895 April Joe Yoshimate’s Imperial Japanese Troupe is being booked by Billy B. Van . The company includes six ladies and four gentlemen , possessing a bewildering programme of accomplishments . Japanese living pictures are a novelty introduced by them.
1895 May – Takizawa‘s Imperial Japanese Troupe – New York
1895 June – O’Kabe Imperial Japanese Troupe – Mlle. Koto , Iro, Kuta Shazu and Minmis Ku – Jersey City
1896 August – Gorman’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Massachusetts
1897 April – Akimoto’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Massachusetts
1897 May – Prince K O’Kabe’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Ohio
1897 September – Fukino’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Galveston Texas
1898 June – Akimoto’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Ohio
1898 August – O’Kabe’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Pennsylvania
1898 June – October – Imperial Japanese Troupe – International Universal Exhibition at Earls Court (organised by Imre Kiralfy)
1898 July – Mitsuta Imperial Japanese Variety Company at Earls Court – 6 native artistes
1898 November – WANTED Known great success of T. Mitsutas’s Imperial Japanese Troupe, Trades and Art Exhibition, Middlesbrough. Offers invited for Mitsuta’s Japanese and English Variety Combination. Twelve to Four- teen Numbers. Can Book from Christmas, onwards. Business communications to HENRI MARTINI, Manager.
1898 December – Mitsukichi Ando (42), Tame Ando (23), Seno Shika (24), Eto Shika (19), Nauker Ando (11), Frank Kamikichi (25) arrive in Liverpool from America
1899 March – Royal Imperial Japanese Troupe – Birmingham. Hamilton’s Diorama – Bradford.
1899 May – Royal Imperial Japanese Troupe – Burnley, with Hamilton’s Excursions
1899 May – OKabe’s Imperial Japanese Troupe District of Columbia
1899 May – The Ando Imperial Japanese Troupe in Sheffield
1899 June – Prince K O’Kabe’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Ohio
1899 July – THE ROYAL IMPERIAL JAPANESE TROUPE Oriental Wonders, in Phenomenal, Genuine, and Original Repertoire, which includes—The Swinging Bamboos, Japanese Bending, Pyramid Contortion, Japanese Ladders, the Great Shoulder Perch, Walking on Swords, Broken Ladder, prestidigitation, posturing, top spinning etc. Hamilton’s Excursions, Leigh, Greater Manchester. Royal Imperial Japanese troupe, consisting of about seven individuals, including Ando, Asiatic equilibrist extraordinary to the Emperor of Japan
1899 August – P. K. Okabe‘s Imperial Japanese troupe – Michigan
1899 August – September – Manchester – Hamilton’s Excursions Royal Imperial Japanese troupe.
1899 September – P.R. Okabe‘s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Ohio
1899 October – December – Leeds – Hamilton’s Excursions (Ando’s) Royal Imperial Japanese troupe wonderful jugglery and balancing feats.
1900 January – Takezawa‘s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Pennsylvania
1900 January – Bolton – Imperial Japanese Troupe, with Ando, juggler
1900 February – Stockton – Batty’s Circus – Ando-Yedo Imperial Japanese troupe – a juggling act, a breakaway ladder act, contortion and Japanese guiding, screen and barrel kicking
1900 May – just arrived from Continent, Takezawa Imperial Troupe, 6 in number, magnificent costume, new to England. EB Smith/Harry Cradle
1900 June – Takezawa’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Pennsylvania
1900 June – July – The Nishihama-Matzui, the wonderfully clever Imperial Japanese Troupe – Paris
1900 October – Mitsuta’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Leeds
1900 November – Ando-Yedo Royal Imperial Japanese Troupe jugglers and acrobats – seven in number – Gateshead. Rochdale Circus of Varieties.
1900 December – Takezawa’s Imperial Troupe – Delaware
1900 December – Ando-Yedo Royal Imperial Japanese troupe – Chatham
1900 December – Imperial Japanese Troupe – Wolverhampton, Ando a wonderful Japanese juggler
1901 January – February – Imperial Japanese Troupe in Georgia – Kudara hurt from fall.
1901 January – Imperial Japanese Troupe and Ando – Birmingham UK
1901 February – Takezawa’s Imperial Troupe – New York
1901 July – Gorman’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Massachusetts
1901 July – Imperial Japanese troupe, Birmingham, UK – hand and foot balancing, wire walking, contortion, ladder tricks.
1901 August – Prince Kitamura’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – 15 people. Ohio
1901 August – Imperial Japanese Troupe, Prince Ando – Derby
1901 October – Imperial Japanese Troupe of seventeen athletes and equilibrists in Toronto, Canada
1901 October – the Imperial Japanese troupe (four); Ando, Japanese juggler, Sadakichi, Monkichi, Tama – Greenock, Scotland
1901 November – Takezawa’s Imperial JapaneseTroupe – New York
1901 November – Imperial Japanese Troupe -Tudor Circus – Ipswich, Ando, Moto Kichi on a silver thread.
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 New York
1902 January -Imperial Japanese Troupe which consists of seven expert gymnasts, Ando – Dover, UK
1902 March – Manchester – Ando’s Imperial Japanese troupe
1902 July – People held their breath while the small boy belonging to the Imperial Japanese troupe acrobats mounted the tall pole balanced on the feet of a man lying on his back, and climbed almost to the ceiling – Hull. Juggling, top spinning
1903 May – Keeler’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Pawnee Bill Wild West – Pennsylvania
1904 January – Takezawa’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Massachusetts
1904 January – The Asakusas, Imperial Japanese troupe 5 in number Aberdare, Wales
1904 April – October. – Buffalo Bill’s Wild West – Imperial Japanese Troupe – national tour of Britain “in ancient and modern war drill” – Kitamura Tora aged 28, his wife Kome aged 21, Chik Sano 38, Hashimoto Kiku 16, Kitamura Kiku 14, Terada Atsushi 21, Kitamura Masu 17, Kitamura Hachi 16 (female), Kitamura Daiko 10
1904 July – Tetsuwari’s Imperial Japanese Troupe 10 people – Great Wallace Shows, New York Clipper
1904 August – Kitamura Imperial Japanese Troupe 10 people Iowa State Fair
1905 January – Okabe‘s Imperial Japanese Troupe Seattle
1905 September – Okabe’s Imperial Japanese Troupe Michigan
1905 October – Prince Kenoti’s Imperial Japanese Troupe
1906 Imperial Japanese Troupe New York Clipper
1906 January – February -Keeler’s Imperial Japanese Troupe – Canada
1907 September – Tanaka Imperial Japanese Troupe, Michigan
1907 November- Yo San Imperial Japanese troupe – Birmingham, UK
1908 September – Yo San Imperial Japanese Troupe – Yarmouth
1909 April – Special and pleasing engagement of the celebrated ANDOS Imperial Japanese Troupe, in their marvellous and sensational Oriental Entertainment -Scotland
1909 October – Ten Tokio Imperial Japanese Troupe – Pittsburg
1910 August – Araki Imperial Japanese Troupe – Rock Island
1912 – April & October – Imperial Japanese Troupe – Ohio, Cincinnati
1913 – January, March, May – Imperial Japanese Troupe – Yankee Robinson Show, Michigan,
1914 April – Imperial Japanese Troupe – Los Angeles
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