a comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan which is set in Japan and contains the well-known songs The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring, Tra La and Three Little Maids from School. The name 'Mikado' is a former title for the emperor of Japan (1885)
literally "exalted gate " An archaic and seldom used term for the Japanese monarch (see tennÅ)
a game in which wooden sticks have to be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining sticks
An ancient name for the Emperor of Japan, widely used in the West in the 19th Century and popularized by Gilbert and Sullivan in their operetta "The Mikado," but not used in Japan, where the emperor was and is customarily referred to as Tenno, "Son of Heaven "
A steam locomotive with a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement, 2 pony truck wheels up front, 8 driving wheels in the middle and 2 trailing truck wheels at the rear under the firebox (click here to a photo of a Reading class M-1sa Mikado)