Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.JAPAN: No Mikado, Much Regret
In the 62 years that Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado has been around, the Japanese had never once performed it. Obviously Pish-Tush's lines ridiculed the Emperor:
Our great Mikado, virtuous man,
When he to rule our land began,
Resolved to try a plan whereby
Young men might best be steadied.
So he decreed, in words succinct.
That all who flirted, leered or winked (Unless connubially linked),
Should forthwith be beheaded.
Now that neither the Emperor nor his people felt so strongly about the sacredness of His Majesty, the first all-Japanese performance of The Mikado was all...
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