Mirado

==Mirado==
Mirado, also known as Mikado, ia a pencil group based on the fact that all the pencils are decended from the Eagle Mikado of pre-WWII times.
==Origin of Mirado==
Mikado, which had been long seen on the pencils that were famous in America, were given that name since the word "Mikado" was infact a Japanese word for Emperor. When the Japenese bombed Pearl Harbour in 1941, Eagle chose to rename the famed pencil to the Americanized version of the word, Mirado.
==Pencils in the Group==
Mikado and Mirado Pencils were not all Woodcased, but they were made in Indelible varieties and in Type-Tip varieties, known also as Flared Eraser varieties.
==Existence today==
Mirado pencils are still seen today in the Mirado Classic, Mirado Black Warrior, and Mirado Woodtone, all made by Papermate.
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