Is "みかさ" a synonym for Tangerine or Mandarin (orange) I took 3 years of Japanese starting in 1996. A lot has obviously worn off in the last 20 years, but one word that really stuck out was "Mikasa". I swear I saw that it was the word for tangerine or mandarin orange, and it was repeatedly drilled in because my parents have Mikasa brand dinnerware/flatware. I was going to relay that info to a friend who is into anime (because he mentioned Mikasa Ackermann from _Attack on Titan_ ), but when I double checked to make sure I didn't look like an idiot, I came up with nothing. I see that is the word for mandarin orange. Is some sort of alternative word or brand of fruit or something, and I don't have the right Google-fu to find it?

For me personally, I have never seen or heard the word "Mikasa" used to refer to oranges. I was born and spent a lot of time in Japan, but I have never heard of the word "Mikasa" except for:

* A company
* Mikasa city in Hokkaido
* The mountain in Nara and the battleship named after it
* The anime character you mentioned
* And lastly, the names of people, and a family of Imperial house of Japan.



I did a bit of googling to make sure my knowledge was correct, but it seems that the word Mikasa is never used for oranges. I think you may have misremembered something.