The origin of the troupe can be traced back to 1963, when playwright Fukuda first established the Kumo Theatre Company together with Hiroshi Akutagawa.
Akutagawa had quit the Bungaku-za to join Fukuda, accompanied by 31 actors.
Fukuda pursued the conservative, literary realization through performances of major Shakespeare plays.
Subaru was formed in 1976, as a merger and reformation with its sister theatre company Keyaki.
Yet "with its solid ensemble and original titles while opposing commercialism",[2] their homebase sanbyaku nin theatre could not be saved from being shut down, due to deterioration.