Crowther, Andrew. "The Mikado and Racism", Andrew Crowther: Playwright and Biographer, 20 July 2014
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The conductor Ernest MacMillan, along with other musician internees, recreated the score from memory with the aid of a libretto. See MacMillan, pp. 25–27
Kan'ichi Asakawa. "Institutions before the Reform", The Early Institutional Life of Japan: A Study in the Reform of 645 A.D., Tokyo: Shueisha (1903), p. 25. Quote: "We purposely avoid, in spite of its wide usage in foreign literature, the misleading term Mikado. ... It originally meant not only the Sovereign, but also his house, the court, and even the State, and its use in historical writings causes many difficulties. ... The native Japanese employ the term neither in speech nor in writing."
this translationArchived 11 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Daniel Kravetz wrote in The Palace Peeper, December 2007, p. 3, that the song was composed in 1868 by Masujiro Omura, with words by Yajiro Shinagawa.
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"The Mikado"Archived 20 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Cinegram No. 75, Pilot Press, London (souvenir programme), The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, 1938, accessed 31 July 2016
In the case of Princess Ida and The Mikado, they hired an American, George Lowell Tracy, to create the piano arrangement of each score, hoping that he would obtain rights that he could assign to them. See, Murrell, Pam. "Gilbert & Sullivan's American Ally", In the Muse, US Library of Congress, 5 August 2020.
According to discographer Marc Shepherd, The Mikado is one of the weakest in the Brent Walker series. See Shepherd, Marc. "The Brent Walker Mikado (1982)"Archived 22 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine, The Gilbert and Sullivan Discography, 5 April 2009
Jacobs, Arthur. "Carte, Richard D'Oyly (1844–1901)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004, accessed 12 September 2008
this translationArchived 11 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Daniel Kravetz wrote in The Palace Peeper, December 2007, p. 3, that the song was composed in 1868 by Masujiro Omura, with words by Yajiro Shinagawa.
"The Mikado"Archived 20 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Cinegram No. 75, Pilot Press, London (souvenir programme), The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, 1938, accessed 31 July 2016
According to discographer Marc Shepherd, The Mikado is one of the weakest in the Brent Walker series. See Shepherd, Marc. "The Brent Walker Mikado (1982)"Archived 22 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine, The Gilbert and Sullivan Discography, 5 April 2009
A character in the Bab Ballad "King Borriah Bungalee Boo" (1866) is the haughty "Pish-Tush-Pooh-Bah", which is split into two in The Mikado – the terms pish,tush,pooh, and bah are all expressions of contempt.
