title: Mikado
text: # Mikado
  
  Mikado may refer to:
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  * The Mikado, an 1885 comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan
  * The Mikado (1939 film), an adaptation of the opera, directed by Victor Schertzinger
  * The Mikado (1967 film), an adaptation of the opera, directed by Stuart Burge
  * "The Mikado" (Millennium), a 1998 television episode
  * Mikado (game), a pick-up sticks game
  * "Mikado" (song), by Simone Drexel, the Swiss entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975
  * Mikado, a DC Comics character
  
  ## Biology
  
  * Mikado pheasant (Syrmaticus mikado)
  * Mikado, a genus of beetles in family Ptiliidae
  * 'Mikado', a cultivar of Syngonanthus chrysanthus
  * Forficula mikado, a species of earwig in the family Forficulidae
  * Kempina mikado, a species of mantis shrimp in the family Squillidae
  
  ## Places
  
  * Mikado Glacier, a glacier in Alexander Island, Antarctica
  * Mikado, Saskatchewan, a hamlet in Canada
     * Mikado station (Saskatchewan), a flag stop in Mikado, Saskatchewan, Canada
  * Mikado Station, a railway station in Isumi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
  * Mikado Township, Michigan, a civil township in the U.S.
     * Mikado, Michigan, an unincorporated community
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Mikado (biscuit), a European marketing name for Pocky
  * Mikado (locomotive), any steam locomotive using the 2-8-2 wheel arrangement.
  * Mikado yellow, a color
  * Operation Mikado, a military plan by the United Kingdom in the Falklands War
  * Michel Warschawski or Mikado (born 1949), Israeli activist
  * 2-8-2, a steam locomotive wheel arrangement, often referred to as a Mikado
  