"The Mikado" (1885) may be one of the most successful theatrical properties of all time. It has been said that there is a performance of the work going on somewhere in the world virtually everyday; certainly it has never been absent from the stage since it was first performed.
One result of this popularity is that people responded with odd expressions of enthusiasm for the work. To wit, there are (or were at one time) in Tennessee the towns of Yum Yum [in Fayette County, near Somerville, east of Memphis], Nankipoo [between Dyersburg and Ripley, north of Memphis], and Koko [in Haywood County, near Stanton, northeast of Memphis]. There is also a Mikado, MI (pronounced mih-KAY-doe).
Those wacky Americans....
Gary Greene
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