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発音

• IPA: /mɪˈkɑːdəʊ/
• 韻: -ɑːdəʊ

名詞

mikado (countable and uncountable, plural mikados or mikado)

1. (history) A former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period.
2. (literary, countable) Any emperor of Japan.

   Synonym: tenno

   The mikados of Japan are its emperors.

   • 1878 July 1, “The Mythology and Religious Worship of the Ancient Japanese”, in The Westminster Review, volume CX, number CCXVII; New Series, volume LIV, number I, London: Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC, page 30:

     An interval of eighty years, occupied by two mikado of whose doings nothing is recorded, brings us to the celebrated female sovereign who invaded and conquered Korea.

   • 1885, Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado:

     Our great Mikado, virtuous man,
     When he to rule our land began,
     Resolved to try a plan whereby
     Young men might best be steadied.

3. A game of skill, in which identically shaped (but differently colored and valued) wooden sticks must be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining stack.

   Synonym: pick-up sticks

4. A fabric having a stiff twill weave.

派生語

参考

• Chrysanthemum Throne