Tikki Tikki Tembo#Gamma Goochee

Tikki Tikki Tembo is set in ancient China and invents a fictitious ancient Chinese custom whereby parents honor their first-born sons with long, elaborate names that everyone is obliged to say completely{{spaced ndash}}no nicknames, no shortening of any kind{{spaced ndash}}while second-born sons are typically given short, unimportant names. One of these boys is named Tikki Tikki Tembo-no Sa Rembo-chari Bari Ruchi-pip Peri Pembo ("The Most Wonderful Thing in the Whole Wide World") who has a little brother Chang ("Little or Nothing"); their mother shows obvious favoritism towards her older son while often dismissing Chang.

One day the brothers are playing very close to a well at their house. Chang falls in the well and his older brother runs to their mother and tells her Chang has fallen down the well. Their mother tells him to get the Old Man with the Ladder. He goes and tells the Old Man. Chang is rescued and then recovers quickly, after which their mother forbids the two boys from playing by the well.

While initially keeping the promise to their mother, the boys go to the well again after a festival to eat their rice cakes. This time, the older brother falls in. Chang runs to their mother and tries to tell her that "Tikki Tikki Tembo-no Sa Rembo-chari Bari Ruchi-pip Peri Pembo has fallen into the well." At first, she cannot hear him so he says it again. However, because Chang is out of breath from running, he sputters and then mispronounces the name. His mother insists that he repeat the name{{mdash}}but with respect.

He tries repeatedly until finally, his mother tells Chang to get the Old Man with the Ladder. Chang goes to the Old Man with the Ladder. Initially, the old man does not respond because he is asleep. When Chang tries to wake him up, the Old Man with the Ladder{{mdash}}annoyed{{mdash}}tries to fall back asleep. After Chang breathlessly repeats his brother's predicament, the Old Man goes with Chang to save his brother from the well. They get Tikki Tikki Tembo-no Sa Rembo-chari Bari Ruchi-pip Peri Pembo from the well, but because of the long time he was in the well, it takes longer for him to recover. The end of the story says that this is why people have short names.

The book received accolades upon publication. The Kirkus Review found the illustrations to be "a skillful counterpoint of diminutive detail and spacious landscape and a fine setting for a sprightly folktale."[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/adene-retold-by-mosel/tikki-tikki-tembo/ "Tikki Tikki Tembo (review)."] Kirkus Reviews, March 25, 1968. Accessed February 5, 2013. The book won a 1968 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in the Picture Book category.[http://www.hbook.com/2011/05/news/boston-globe-horn-book-awards/past-boston-globe-horn-book-award-winners/ "Past Boston Globe — Horn Book Award Winners."] May 30, 2011. Accessed February 5, 2013.

In 1997, The New York Times selected it as one of the 59 children's books of the previous 50 years.{{Cite journal |title=Children's books; 50 Years of Children's Books |journal=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/16/books/children-s-books-50-years-of-children-s-books.html |date=1997-11-16 |language=en |access-date=2022-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418022125/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/16/books/children-s-books-50-years-of-children-s-books.html |archive-date=2019-04-18 |url-status=dead |url-access=subscription}} In a 1999–2000 National Education Association online survey of children, the book was one of the "Kids' Top 100 Books".{{cite web |url= http://www.nea.org/grants/13110.htm |title= Kids' Top 100 Books |author= National Education Association |access-date= February 5, 2013 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130201190330/http://www.nea.org/grants/13110.htm |archive-date= February 1, 2013 }} Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".{{cite web |url= http://www.nea.org/grants/13154.htm/ |title= Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children |author= National Education Association |year= 2007|access-date=August 22, 2012}} In a 2008 online poll of "Top 100 Picture Books" by School Library Journal, the book ranked 35th; in a similar 2012 poll, the book ranked 89th.{{cite web |url= http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2009/04/16/top-100-picture-books-poll-results-35-31/ |title= Top 100 Picture Books Poll Results (#35-31) | author= Bird, Elizabeth |date=April 16, 2009 |publisher= School Library Journal "A Fuse #8 Production" blog |access-date=February 12, 2013}}{{cite web |url= http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/05/18/top-100-picture-books-89-tikki-tikki-tembo-by-arlene-mosel-illustrated-by-blair-lent/ |title=Top 100 Picture Books #89: Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel, illustrated by Blair Lent | author= Bird, Elizabeth |date=May 18, 2012 |publisher= School Library Journal "A Fuse #8 Production" blog |access-date=February 12, 2013}} According to the publisher, over one million copies of the book had been sold by 2013.{{cite web |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312367480/tikkitikkitembo |title=(advertisement) Tikki Tikki Tembo |publisher=Macmillan Publishers |access-date=June 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629121641/https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312367480/tikkitikkitembo |archive-date=2022-06-29 |url-status=live }}

The 2009 audio book version of the story received a Parents' Choice Foundation rating of "Approved".{{cite web |url= http://www.parents-choice.org/product.cfm?product_id=26879&StepNum=1&award=aw|title= Tikki Tikki Tembo | author= Joy, Flora |publisher= Parents' Choice Foundation |access-date=February 12, 2013}}

Cultural activists and Chinese citizens criticized the book for "reinforc[ing] the stereotype that Asian names sound like nonsense syllables",{{Cite book |last=Yamate |first=Sandra S |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/usingmultiethnic0000harr/page/117/mode/1up?q=%22nonsense+syllables%22 |chapter-url-access=registration |title=Using multiethnic literature in the K-8 classroom |date=1997 |publisher=Christopher Gordon Publishers |isbn=978-0-926842-60-1 |location=Norwood, Mass |page=117 |chapter=Asian Pacific American children's literature: Expanding perceptions about who Americans are}} especially as the name of the title character is nothing like actual Chinese.{{cite journal|last1=Cai|first1=Mingshui|title=Images of Chinese and Chinese Americans Mirrored in Picture Books|journal=Children's Literature in Education|volume=25|issue=3|year=1994|pages=169–191|doi=10.1007/BF02355394|s2cid=143693966}}{{Cite book | last1 = Cai | first1 = Mingshui | title = Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults: Reflections on Critical Issues | year = 2002 | publisher = Greenwood Press | location = Westport, CT | isbn = 0-313-31244-3 | page = [https://archive.org/details/multiculturallit00caim_0/page/108 108] | quote = This name [Tikki Tikki Tembo...] does not sound like Chinese, ancient or modern. As portrayed in illustrations, the buildings, the dress, and hairdo of the lady, and the clogs worn by children are in the Japanese rather than Chinese style. | url = https://archive.org/details/multiculturallit00caim_0/page/108 }}Wu, Sabrina (2022) 1:11-2:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b29AbIbVoDE

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The publisher states that the author "first heard the story ... as a child" and that the book is "her own" retelling of it. There are previous stories also set in China. However, the story is thought to have originated in Japan rather than China.{{cite journal |last1=Chen |first1=Minjie|date=Spring 2009 |title=Seeking Accurate Cultural Representation: Mahjong, World War II, and Ethnic Chinese in Multicultural Youth Literature |journal=Multicultural Education |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=2–10 |url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=EJ847136 |access-date=January 26, 2013}}

Similar tales have been introduced to the United States several times.

In 1900, a poem "Teki-teki-no. A little Jap tragedy" by Jerome Davis Greene appeared on The Century Magazine.{{Cite journal |title=Teki-teki-no |journal=The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.32106008929421?urlappend=%3Bseq=976 |last=Jerome D. |first=Greene |author-link=Jerome Davis Greene|issue=April |volume=59 |via=Hathitrust |publisher=The Century Company |year=1900 |publication-place=New York |page=966 |language=en |hdl-access=free |hdl=2027/uc1.32106008929421}}

• [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.32106008929421?urlappend=%3Bseq=14 Volume index page viii] "Teki-teki-no, Jerome D. Greene, 966, with pictures by May Tevis"
• Same image in Wikimedia Commons: Teki-teki-no – A little Jap tragedy by Jerome D. Greene (1900)

A child

:"Teki-teki-no, teki-suri-ombo, so-take-nudo, Harima-no-betto, Cha-wan-chaus'no, Fushimi-no-Esuke"

drowns in the well. No sibling is mentioned in this version. Jerome Davis Greene was an American born in Yokohama, Japan. He moved to the United States and later became a businessman{{Cite book |title=Harvard college class of 1896 – Twenty-fifth anniversary report |publisher=Harvard college class of 1896 |year=1921 |pages=225–228 |language=en |chapter=Jerome Davis Greene |chapter-url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044107299943?urlappend=%3Bseq=315 |hdl-access=free |hdl=2027/hvd.32044107299943 |via=Hathitrust}}

• p225: Jerome Davis Greene and May Tevis married in April 1900, the same month that the poem was published.
• pp256–228: secretary and administrative positions in various organizations.

and organizer of Japanese studies.{{Cite journal |title=The Formative Years of the Transpacific Networks Promoting Japanese Studies in America |journal=Departmental Bulletin |last=Nakashima |first=Tomoko |volume=4 |publisher=Center for Pacific and American Studies of The University of Tokyo |doi=10.15083/00037261 |year=2004 |page=114 |language=en |issn=1346-2989 |id={{NCID|AA11562201}} |doi-access=free}}

File:Everyland magazine July 1918 p195 The long-life name.jpg,1918)]]

Japanese Novelist Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto introduced a tale called "The long-life name" in a 1918 issue of the children's magazine Everyland. It tells that a child was given a long name, in a wish to live for long. But the child

:"Het-toko het-toko hengo-no-kami, ik-kai niu-do waniudo, gaga-no fun-nai-zama, oodep-po kodep-po, sasara dep-po hibashi, ja-jan-janjan"

drowns in the well. Sugimoto notes that she learned this tale during her childhood from her nurse.{{Cite journal|journal=Everyland|title=The stories that 'Taki' told – The long-life name|last=Etsu|first=Sugimoto|author-link=Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto|volume=9|page=195|year=1918|issue=7|publisher=Everyland|location=New York, USA|hdl=2027/chi.79411619?urlappend=%3Bseq=193 |language=en|lccn=12022998|oclc=1568537|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/chi.79411619?urlappend=%3Bseq=193}}

File:Tiki-Tiki-Tembo in 1924 Through Story-Land with the Children.jpg

In 1924, the National Association of Junior Chautauquas published a book that contained a story by an anonymous author entitled "Tiki-Tiki-Tembo"; the story concerned a boy "in old Japan" named:

:"Tiki-tiki-tembo-no sa rembo-Hari bari broohski-Peri pen do-Hiki pon pom-Nichi no miano-Dom bori ko"{{Cite book |title=Through Story-Land with the Children |chapter=Tiki-Tiki-Tembo |author=anonymous |year=1924 |publisher=Fleming H. Revell Co. |editor=National Association of Junior Chautauquas |location=New York |pages=31–34 |language=en |lccn=24022123 |oclc=8693565}}

and his neglected sibling "Choi". After falling into the well, the title character "never grew up to be a fine Japanese man." It concludes that "And now in old{{sic}} Japan, boys are given tiny short names such as 'Su', 'Foy', 'Wang', or 'Sing' ". There are some non-Japanese elements in this version.In modern Japanese phonology, "ti", "br", "fo", "ng" stop, and "si" are foreign sounds. ({{Cite journal |title=Japanese Learners of English and Japanese Phonology |journal=Research Bulletin of Naruto University of Education |url=https://naruto.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=28121&file_id=25&file_no=1 |last=KITA |first=Yoko |date=2019-03-11 |volume=34 |doi=10.24727/00028113 |at=p211 line 13, p210 line 28, p211 line 16, 19, 13. |language=en |format=pdf |issn=1880-7194 |doi-access=free}}) A book published in 1968 (the same year as Tikki Tikki Tembo) reprinted the 1924 version of the story.{{Cite book |title=The Frog's Saddle Horse and Other Tales |publisher=J. B. Lippincott |year=1968 |location=Philadelphia and New York |pages=40–45 |language=en |editor-last=Hardendorff |editor-first=Jeanne B. |chapter=Tiki-Tiki-Tembo |lccn=68010772 |oclc=436253 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/frogssaddlehorse00hard/page/40/mode/1up |chapter-url-access=registration}}

• Quote from [https://archive.org/details/frogssaddlehorse00hard/page/n7/mode/1up Acknowledgements]: {{" '}}Tiki-Tiki-Tembo' was previously published in Through Story-Land with the Children, National Association of Junior Chautauquas, copyright 1924 by Fleming H. Revell Co."
• p45: "Through Story-Land with the Children, National Association of Junior Chautauquas."

An early instance of Chinese setting{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ognBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA181 |title=Positioning the New: Chinese American Literature and the Changing Image of the American Literary Canon |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |year=2010 |isbn=9781443825474 |editor-last=Tunc |editor-first=Tanfer Emin |pages=181 |language=en |editor-last2=Marino |editor-first2=Elisabetta}} (URL is Google Books) is a 1941Mosel was born in 1921 ({{LCAuth|id=n85180661|name=Mosel, Arlene}}), so she was around 20 years old in 1941. audio recording titled "Long-Name-No-Can-Say", adapted and narrated by Paul Wing.{{Cite web |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/objects/detail/62508/Bluebird_B-636 |title=Bluebird B-636 (10-in. double-faced). Long-Name-No-Can-Say (Album BC-50) |quote=Primary Performers:Paul Wing (speaker); Other Information:Release Date: 10/17/1941|access-date=2022-07-08 |website=Discography of American Historical Recordings |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220708142653/https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/objects/detail/62508/Bluebird_B-636 |archive-date=2022-07-08 |url-status=live}} 1941 was in a time of strong anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States.{{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Thomas Andrew |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015002365792&view=1up&seq=134&skin=2021 |title=The man in the street; the impact of American public opinion on foreign policy |publisher=Peter Smith |year=1964 |location=Glencester, Massachusetts |pages=122 line 15 |language=en |hdl=2027/mdp.39015002365792?urlappend=%3Bseq=134 |hdl-access=free |orig-year=1948}}

:A boy named

::"Nicki Nicki Tembo No So Rembo Ooma Moochi Gamma Gamma Goochi"

:is fat and mean. He has 7 siblings: 6 elder sisters "Humph", "Lumph", "Mumph", "Bumph", "Dumph", "Gumph", and a younger brother "Yen". "Nicki Nicki Tembo{{Interp|...}}" falls into a well, but is eventually rescued.

Another recording titled "Sticky Sticky Stembo" was written by Selma R. Rich in 1953.{{Cite journal |title=Catalog of copyright entries |journal=Catalogue of Copyright Entries. Part 3, Musical Compositions |publisher=Library of Congress |year=1953 |location=Washington |page=1539 |language=en |volume=series 3, volume 7, part 5B, number 1, Unpublished music, January–June 1953 |hdl=2027/uiug.30112058540573?urlappend=%3Bseq=272 |quote=Sticky Sticky Stembo; w m Selma R. Rich; (C) Sage Music, Inc.; 9Feb53; EU303370}}

There was a wave of publications through 1959 to 1961: a song by the Brothers Four, Shari Lewis's recording, a reissue of Paul Wing's recording, a book by Bryna Untermeyer, and possibly a narration on TV.{{Cite book |title=Catalog of copyright entries |publisher=Library of Congress |year=1961 |location=Washington |pages=2132 |language=en |volume=series 3, volume 14, parts 3–4, number 2, Dramas and works prepared for oral delivery, July–December 1960 |hdl=2027/pst.000059864509?urlappend=%3Bseq=138 |quote=Tiki Tiki Tembo; dramatized and narrated by Shirley Brown on TV. (C) Shirley B. Brown; 23Aug60}} ([https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000059864509&view=1up&seq=101&skin=2021&q1=%22tiki%20tiki%20tembo%22 inner cover])

• Shirley (Berkowich) Brown hosted WJZ-TV Let's Tell a Story ({{Cite web |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-md-ob-shirley-brown-20201221-cdabneopyfdpvnefykedekind4-story.html |title=Shirley Brown, professional storyteller and ceramics educator, dies |date=2020-12-20 |access-date=2022-06-30 |website=Baltimore Sun |last=Kelly |first=Jacques}})

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The Brothers Four's song "Sama Kama Wacky Brown" (lyrics by Ed Warren),{{Cite journal |title=Catalog of copyright entries |journal=Catalog of Copyright Entries.musical Compositions |publisher=Library of Congress |year=1960 |location=Washington |page=1539 |language=en |volume=series 3, volume 13, part 5, number 2, Music, July–December 1959 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015039642106?urlappend=%3Bseq=435 |quote=Sama Kama Wacky Brown; w Ed Warren, m George Goehring; (C) Joy Music, Inc.; 25Sep59; KU592340}} from their eponymous first album in 1960,{{cite AV media |title=The Brothers Four|type=LP recording|publication-place=New York|publisher=Columbia|year=1960|id=CL 1402|lccn=93705344| oclc=15100364}} sings about

:"Eddie Koochy Katcha Kama Tosa Neera Tosa Noka Sama Kama Wacky Brown"

who "fell into the deep, dark well" and drowned.{{Cite web |url=http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/ACSF152K.html |title=Sama Kama Wacky Brown |access-date=2022-06-30 |website=The Traditional Ballad Index (hosted on California State University, Fresno website) |last1=Waltz |first1=Robert B. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629162746/http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/ACSF152K.html |archive-date=2022-06-29 |url-status=live |last2=Engle |first2=David G. |language=en}} ([http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/ California State University, Fresno Folklore Home Page], [http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/BalladIndexTOC.html The Traditional Ballad Index]) The song is sometimes called "Eddie Brown".

Lamb Chop's puppeteer Shari Lewis{{Cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/puppeteer-shari-lewis-dies/ |title=Puppeteer Shari Lewis Dies |date=1998-08-03 |access-date=2022-07-08 |website=CBS News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509064434/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/puppeteer-shari-lewis-dies/ |archive-date=2021-05-09 |url-status=live}} released a story record "Tiki Tiki Timbo" around 1959.{{Cite book |title=Collecting Little golden books |last=Santi |first=Steve |publisher=Krause Publications |year=2000 |isbn=0873418727 |edition=4 |location=Iola, WI |pages=225, 278 |language=en |url=https://archive.org/details/collectinglittle00sant_0/page/278/mode/1up?q=%22tiki+timbo%22 |chapter=Little Golden Records |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/collectinglittle00sant_0/page/225/mode/1up?q=%22To+help+you+date+records%22 |url-access=registration}} (URL is archive.org)

• p278: record number 555
• p225: date range: #550-#600 in 1959

{{cite AV media |title=(B-side) Tiki-Tiki-Timbo|last1=Duskin|last2=Barer|last3=Melnik|type=78 rpm recording|publication-place=New York|publisher=Golden Record|year=1959|id=R555B|oclc=975979584}} (A-side: Aren't You Glad You're You?){{cite AV media |title=(B-side) Tiki-Tiki-Timbo|last1=Duskin|last2=Barer|last3=Melnik|type=45 rpm recording|publication-place=New York|publisher=Golden Record|year=1959|id=FF555B|oclc=24641298}} (A-side: Aren't You Glad You're You?){{cite AV media |title=Hi Kids!|chapter=Tiki-Tiki-Timbo|type=LP recording|publication-place=New York|publisher=Golden Record|year=1959|id=GLP 39|oclc=13491820}}{{Cite magazine |title=Reviews of this week's LP's – Children's – Hi Kids! |magazine=Billboard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RwoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26 |date=1959-10-12 |pages=26 |via=Google Books |language=en}} In the song, the older brother's name is

:"Tiki Tiki Timbo No Sin Nimbo Hoi Boi Boski Poi Pon Do Hiki Pon Pon Niki No Mi Ah Dom Poi"

and his younger brother is "Choi". Tiki Tiki Timbo drowns in the well.

The 1960 reissue of Paul Wing's "Long-Name-No-Can-Say" narrationB-636, LBY-1044, CAL-1044 and CAS-1044 are all from an identical take (recording revision).

• {{Cite web |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/200052013/BS-067709-Long-Name-No-Can-Say |title=Victor matrix BS-067709. Long-Name-No-Can-Say / Paul Wing |access-date=2022-07-05 |website=Discography of American Historical Recordings |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705030330/https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/200052013/BS-067709-Long-Name-No-Can-Say |archive-date=2022-07-05 |url-status=live}}
• {{Cite web |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/200052014/BS-067710-Long-Name-No-Can-Say |title=Victor matrix BS-067710. Long-Name-No-Can-Say / Paul Wing |access-date=2022-07-05 |website=Discography of American Historical Recordings |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705030646/https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/200052014/BS-067710-Long-Name-No-Can-Say |archive-date=2022-07-05 |url-status=live}}

is an omnibus with another fairytale that also has 7 supportive characters: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.{{cite AV media|last1=Cramer|first1=H.|title=Long-Name-No-Can-Say (Nicki Nicki Tembo) A Chinese fable}}, Wing, Paul (narrator)
Featured in the omnibus LP album: {{cite AV media|title=Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; also Long-Name-No-Can-Say|type=LP recording|publication-place=Camden, NJ|publisher=RCA Victor|year=1960|series=Children's Bluebird Records|id=LBY-1044|oclc=16120265}}, Day, Dennis (narrator)

A story published in 1961, called "The Little Boy With the Long Name", featured an older brother named

:"Sticky Sticky Stumbo Nos E Rumbo E Pro Pennyo Hara Bara Brisko Nicky Prom Po Nish No Mennyo Dumbricko",BetteJo. [http://bettejosbeadcreations.blogspot.com/2008/09/sticky-sticky-stumbo-revisited.html "Sticky Sticky Stumbo Revisited."] Being BetteJo blog, September 23, 2008.{{Cite book |title=Big and Little Creatures |publisher=Golden Press |year=1961 |pages=164–169 |language=en |editor-last=Untermeyer |editor-first=Bryna |editor-link=Bryna Ivens Untermeyer |series=The Golden Treasury of Children's Literature |volume=1 |chapter=The Little Boy With the Long Name |lccn=62004314 |oclc=6431887 |editor-last2=Untermeyer |editor-first2=Louis |editor-link2=Louis Untermeyer}}

named so in a belief that long name causes longevity.

The story ends with the boy's death by drowning. The editor of this version is Bryna Ivens Untermeyer.

1967–1969 saw another wave: an LP record containing the 1961 Untermeyer's "Sticky Sticky Stumbo" version,{{Cite AV media |title=Discovering rhythm and rhyme in poetry |last=Untermeyer |first=Louis |type=LP record |language=en |publisher=Caedmon |year=1967 |time=27:36 |id=TCP 1156 |oclc=3929285 |lccn=r67-3991 |quote=Side 1: {{Interp|...}} The little boy with the long name (Bryna Ivens Untermeyer)}} Mosel's book, a reprint of the 1924 anonymous version, and Monty Python's TV show (1969 in UK,{{Cite web |url=http://www.montypython.com/tvshow_Monty%20Python's%20Flying%20Circus,%20Series%201/14 |title=TV shows Monty Python's Flying Circus, Series 1 |access-date=2022-07-04 |website=Monty Python's official website |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531062904/https://www.montypython.com/tvshow_Monty%20Python%27s%20Flying%20Circus,%20Series%201/14 |archive-date=2022-05-31 |url-status=live |language=en |quote=Episode 6 (Original air date: 23 Nov. 1969) Johann Gambolputty … of Ulm}} around 1974 in the US{{cite news|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/columnists/alan-peppard/20110825-alan-peppard-bob-wilson-hailed-in-kera-documentary.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140519004645/http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/columnists/alan-peppard/20110825-alan-peppard-bob-wilson-hailed-in-kera-documentary.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 May 2014|title=Alan Peppard: Bob Wilson hailed in KERA documentary |last=Peppard|first=Alan |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |date=25 August 2011 |access-date=2022-07-04}}).

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Since the 1980s, Mosel's version became criticized for misrepresenting Chinese culture.{{Cite book |title=Literature for Children about Asians and Asian Americans |last1=Jenkins |first1=Esther C. |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1987 |isbn=9780313259708 |location=Connecticut, US |pages=8 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V-rfAAAAMAAJ&q=%22tikki+tikki+tembo%22+%22stereotypes%22 |last2=Austin |first2=Mary C. |url-access=limited}}

"Pacho Nacho" published in 2020 is a rewrite of Mosel's version with settings changed to Hispanic America. One reviewer regarded this version suitable for people who hate racism.{{Cite web |url=https://afuse8production.slj.com/2020/12/14/31-days-31-lists-2020-fairy-folk-and-religious-tales/ |title=31 Days, 31 Lists: 2020 Fairy, Folk, and Religious Tales |date=2020-12-14 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=fuse #8 production |last=Bird |first=Betsy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303233435/https://afuse8production.slj.com/2020/12/14/31-days-31-lists-2020-fairy-folk-and-religious-tales/ |archive-date=2024-03-03 |url-status=live |publisher=School Library Journal |language=en}} The author of "Pacho Nacho" states that the protagonist's name

:"Pacho-Nacho-Nico-Tico-Melo-Felo-Kiko-Rico"

is composed from popular Spanish boys' nicknames.{{Cite book |title=Pacho Nacho |last=Lopez |first=Silvia |at=Author's note at the end of the book |publisher=Raintree |year=2020 |isbn=9781474793100 |location=Oxford, UK |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8unaDwAAQBAJ&q=%22full%20name%20is%20a%20string%20of%20popular%20spanish%20boys%20nicknames%22&pg=PT31 |url-access=limited}}

{{anchor|The Child with a Long Name|Literature studies}}

Japanese folklore studies classify Tikki Tikki Tembo-like tales as tale type NMS 638 The Child with a Long Name.{{r|"NMS_3-2_1958"|page=737}}Many other 3-digit type-codes exist.

• Kunio Yanagita
• No code is assigned in his Japanese edition: {{Nihongo3|Nihon mukashibanashi meii|日本昔話名彙|Catalog of Japanese Folktales}} {{Harv|Yanagita|1948}}: "{{Lang|ja|長い名の子供}}".
• English translation by Fanny Hagin Mayer assigns an original number "234. The Child with a Long Name": The Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale (1986)
• Online edition: {{Cite book |title=The Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale |date=n.d. |editor1-last=Mayer |editor1-first=fanny Haggin |translator-last=Mayer |translator-first=fanny Haggin |editor2-last=Yanagita |editor2-first=Kunio |author1=Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai |chapter=234. The Child with a Long Name |author-link2=Kunio Yanagita |author-link1=NHK |publisher=Indiana University Press |edition=Open Indiana |isbn=978-0-253-05556-9 |language=en |url=https://publish.iupress.indiana.edu/projects/the-yanagita-kunio-guide-to-the-japanese-folk-tale |access-date=2022-03-12 |orig-date=1986 |chapter-url=https://publish.iupress.indiana.edu/read/the-yanagita-kunio-guide-to-the-japanese-folk-tale/section/af1282e0-e3e2-4fbc-8f91-f9902a38165e |display-authors=0}}
• Original paper edition: {{Cite book |title=The Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale |year=1986 |editor1-last=Mayer |editor1-first=Fanny Haggin |translator-last=Mayer |translator-first=Fanny Haggin |editor2-last=Yanagita |editor2-first=Kunio |author1=Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai |chapter=234. The Child with a Long Name |author-link2=Kunio Yanagita |author-link1=NHK |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=0-253-36812-X |location=Bloomington, Indiana |pages=232–233 |language=en |url=https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/publications/afm9/ |quote=(p.iv) This book has been produced from camera-ready copy provided by Asian Folklore Studies, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. |access-date=2022-03-12 |display-authors=0}}
• Keigo Seki
• {{Nihongo3|Nihon mukashibanashi shūsei|日本昔話集成|Compilation of Japanese Folktales}} {{Harv|Seki|1958v3-2}}
• p735: "638.{{Lang|ja|長い名の子}}"
• p905: "619.{{Lang|ja|長い名の子}} (638)"
• "456. The Child with a long name", "NMS no. 638": {{cite journal |author-link=Keigo Seki |last=Seki |first=Keigo |year=1966 |url={{NDLDC|10208428|format=url}} |title=Types of Japanese folktales |format=pdf |journal=Asian Folklore Studies |language=en |publisher=Nanzan University |volume=25 |issue=1 |page=210 |doi=10.2307/1177478 |jstor=1177478 |id={{NDLPID|10208428}} |via=National Diet Library Digital Collections (Japan)}}
• Hiroko Ikeda (folklorist)
• 2080 A Long Name: {{Cite journal |title=A type and motif index of Japanese folk-literature |journal=FF Communications |last=Ikeda |first=Hiroko |issue=209 |pages=286–287 |year=1971 |language=en |location=Helsinki |publisher=Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia |issn=0789-0249 |oclc=286392}}
• {{Ill|Koji Inada (folklorist)|ja|稲田浩二}}
• 857 {{Lang|ja|長い名の子}}: {{Nihongo3|Nihon mukashibanashi tsūkan|日本昔話通観|General survey and analysis of Japanese folktales}} {{Harv|Inada|1988v28}}

A typical specimen in Japanese folklore (reported in 1932):

:The first child was given a convenient short name {{transliteration|ja|Chotto}}, but it soon dies. The parents think it must be because the name was too short, so they give their next child a long name:

::Itchōgiri nichōgiri chōnai chōzaburō gorogoroyamano gorohēsaku atchiyama kotchiyama torino tossaka tateeboshi tonkarabyō

:One day the child falls into a well. His friend goes to a house nearby and asks for a ladder, but the old woman there is deaf, so by the time the friend manages to bring the ladder, the child with a long name is dead.{{r|"NMS_3-2_1958"|pages=737-738}}Full English translation of the specimen: {{Cite book |title=Ancient Tales in Modern Japan: An Anthology of Japanese Folk Tales |last=Mayer |first=Fanny Hagin |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=1985 |isbn=0253307104 |location=Bloomington, Indiana |pages=243 |language=en |url=https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/publications/afm8/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111232129/https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/publications/afm8/ |archive-date=2020-11-11 |url-status=live}} ([https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/files/2012/05/AFS-Monograph-8.pdf pdf])

Opinions vary regarding the similarity between NMS 638 The Child with a Long Name in Japan and folklore in other cultures. Keigo Seki assigns no equivalent Aarne–Thompson index (AT index), a comprehensive code system of European folktales.{{Cite book|title=Nihon mukashibanashi taisei|script-title=ja:日本昔話大成 第10巻（笑話 3）|trans-chapter=Child with a long name 638|script-chapter=ja:長い名の子 638|publisher=Kadokawa Shoten|date=1980-03-31|page=186|last=Seki|first=Keigo|author-link=Keigo Seki|volume=10|isbn=404530410X|oclc=25019329|id={{JPNO|80020333}}|ref={{Sfnref|Seki|1980v10}}}} {{Ill|Koji Inada (folklorist)|ja|稲田浩二}} considers it partially similar to AT 1562A{{Cite book|title=Nihon mukashibanashi tsūkan|trans-title=General survey and analysis of Japanese folktales|script-title=ja:日本昔話通観|volume=28 Type index|trans-chapter=Type indice comparison table. 857 Child with a long name|script-chapter=ja:タイプ・インデックスの比較・対照表 857 長い名の子|publisher=同朋舎|date=1988-09-15|pages=661, 718 |last=Inada|first=Koji|isbn=4810407128|ref={{Sfnref|Inada|1988v28}}}} Barn is Burning.{{Cite web |url=https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/c.php?g=1083510&p=7916872 |title=Linked ATU Tales: ATU 1200 - 1999 Anecdotes and Jokes |access-date=2022-07-04 |website=University of Missouri Libraries Library Guides – Folktale and Folk Motif Indexes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315054939/https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/c.php?g=1083510&p=7916872 |archive-date=2022-03-15 |url-status=live |language=en |quote=ATU 1562A "The Barn is Burning"}} Inada finds no equivalent type indice in Korean folklore studies or in Chinese folklore studies. Folklorist D. L. Ashliman does not assign any AT index either, but remarks that the pattern in Tikki Tikki Tembo follows AT2021A {{Ill|The Death of the Little Hen|de|Von dem Tode des Hühnchens}}.{{Cite web |url=https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/tikki.html |title=Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts – Tikki Tikki Tembo |access-date=2021-11-16 |website=University of Pittsburgh |last=Ashliman |first=D. L. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829201119/https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/tikki.html |archive-date=2021-08-29 |url-status=live |author-link=D. L. Ashliman |language=en}}

A precursor, fables and jokes about people with long names, appeared at least by the 15th century. A manuscript written around 1490 has a fable about a nun who made up a "long" dharma name: "{{transliteration|ja|Ashakumyōkan}}", for herself.{{Cite book|title=Shasekishū|script-title=ja:沙石集|publisher=manuscript by Kaishu (快秀)|orig-date=1283|year=1490|chapter-url=https://rmda.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/item/rb00012947#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=241&r=0&xywh=-1383%2C-1%2C5836%2C2048|at=frames 242–243 of 333|author1=Mujū Dōkyō (無住道暁)|author-link=Mujū|chapter=Volume 8, Chapter 6 佛鼻薫事, Episode 3『或女人出家ノ為ニ～』}} Kyoto University Collection. Chōkyō 3 = approxmiately 1489 CE

• The nun took her name {{Nihongo||阿釈妙観|Ashakumyōkan}} from capital letters of {{Nihongo|Amitābha|阿弥陀|Amida}}, {{Nihongo|Gautama Buddha|釈迦|Shaka}}, {{Nihongo|Marvelous law of Buddha|:wiktionary:妙法|Myōhō}}, {{Nihongo|Guanyin|観音|Kannon}}

The manuscript is based on an earlier book of Buddhist fables.{{Cite book|title=Shasekishū|script-title=ja:沙石集|publisher=Iwanami Shoten Publishers|date=1966-05-06|pages=27|editor-last=Watanabe|editor-first=Tsunaya|series=日本古典文学大系|language=ja|chapter=Commentary|volume=85|location=Tokyo, Japan|id={{JPNO|56012784}}|oclc=833346813}} The nun's invention is a combination of Buddhist saints, deities and concepts. The moral is that such naming is a sign of greed, which is against Buddhist teachings.

An early full-formed version of The Child with a Long Name is the story published in 1703, "{{transliteration|ja|Yoku kara shizumu fuchi}}" ('Sunk down the waters for greed'), in a printed book of jokes created by {{transliteration|ja|rakugo}} comedian Yonezawa Hikohachi.

:A stepmother renames her sons. The stepson whom she hates is given a short name {{transliteration|ja|Nyozegamo}}, and her precious own son is given a long {{transliteration|ja|Anokutarasambyakusambodai}}. One day, {{transliteration|ja|Nyozegamo}} falls into a river, but people swiftly rescue him. Another day, the mother's own son is swept by the river. She cries "Somebody, please! {{transliteration|ja|Anokutarasambyakusambodai}} is drowning!", but the boy is lost while she was calling out.Transcribed text: {{Cite book|script-title=ja:江戸笑話集|publisher=Iwanami Shoten Publishers|orig-date=1703|date=1966-07-05|page=313|author=Yonezawa Hikohachi (米沢彦八)|editor-last=Odaka|editor-first=Toshio|series=日本古典文学大系|language=ja|chapter=Karukuchi gozen otoko (軽口御前男) volume 2 欲からしづむ淵|volume=100|location=Tokyo, Japan|oclc=915506077}}

• p33: The book {{Nihongo|Karukuchi gozen otoko|軽口御前男}} was published in Genroku 16 (1703 CE) in Osaka.
• p313 Punchline: The mother remarks "My boy wouldn't have died if I threw away 'sambyaku'."
• p313 Footnote 32: The sound "{{lang|ja|sambyaku}}" in the name can also mean "three hundreds". An old idiom "throwing away 300 {{lang|ja|mon}}s" meant "trifle loss".
• Note (not in book): Japanese mon (currency) was the smallest unit of currency, somewhat similar to a penny.

Text data: {{Cite web|url=http://base1.nijl.ac.jp/hanashitext/TextAction.do?bouki=0&saku_no=041&kango=006&sys_han=001&groupId=G0000011&page=239|script-title=ja:6巻 軽口御前男|at=欲からしづむ淵|access-date=2021-12-12|publisher=National Institute of Japanese Literature|website='Hanashibon taikei' anthology full text database (噺本大系本文データベース)|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212160727/http://base1.nijl.ac.jp/hanashitext/TextAction.do?bouki=0&saku_no=041&kango=006&sys_han=001&groupId=G0000011&page=239|archive-date=2021-12-12|url-status=live}}

The punchline is a Japanese pun involving the word {{transliteration|ja|sambyaku}}.

A printed book of horror stories published in 1805 contains "{{transliteration|ja|Isshini imyōo tsukete kōkai seshi hanashi}}" ('A tale of a man who named his son with a strange name, and regretted it').

:A man wishes to name his first son with a unique and long name. He consults a Confucian scholar, who recommends the name Mr. {{transliteration|ja|Daigaku shuki shouku shi teishino iwaku daigakuwa kōshino ishonishite shogaku tokuirunomon hyōe}}. A tutor of Japanese poetry sneers at this, opposing such use of foreign language to name a Japanese's son. The tutor proposes {{transliteration|ja|Nagakiyono tōnonefurino minamezame naminaminori funeno otono yoshibē}}, a traditional poem of good fortune. The scholar and the tutor starts quarrelling, so the father decides to make the name by himself. He solemnly declares it will be:

::{{transliteration|ja|Tekitekini tekisuru onbō Sōrinbō sōtaka nyūdō Harimano bettō chawan chausuno hikigino Hyokosuke}}.

:One day, the boy falls into a well. People panic to rescue the boy, but for every message they recite the long name. The boy dies, "blue and swollen".{{Cite book|title=Kikigakiamayonotomo|script-title=ja:聞書雨夜友|publisher=瑶池堂|location=Edo, Japan|year=1805|pages=frame 72–78 of total 96 frames|author=松壽館老人|editor=青雲軒主人|access-date=2021-12-30|language=ja|chapter=Isshini imyōo tsukete kōkai seshi hanashi|script-chapter=ja:一子に異名を付けて後悔せし話|volume=4|doi=10.20730/100052278|chapter-url=https://kotenseki.nijl.ac.jp/biblio/100052278/viewer/76}} (Bunka 2 = approximately 1805 CE)

• frame 73:「{{ruby-ja|大学朱熹章句子程子曰大学孔子之遺書而初学入徳之門兵衛|だいがくしゅきしょうくしていしのいわくだいがくはこうしのいしょにしてしょがくとくいるのもんひょうえ}}」様
• frame 75:「ながきよのとをのねふりのみなめざめなみなみのりふねのをとのよしべい」
• frame 76 (in original spelling):

{{Verse translation|lang=ja

|

敵々仁

敵須畄

御坊

蒼臨坊

惣高入道

播广之別當

茶碗茶臼之

挽木之

飛与小助

|

てきてきに

てきする

おんぼう

そうりんほう

そうたかにうとう

はりまのべつとう

ちやわんちやうすの

ひききの

ひよこすけ}}

• Notes not in source:
• The name by the Confucian is taken from the translation of a Chinese Confucian textbook about Great Learning. (Example: {{cite book |author-link=Zhu Xi |author=Zhu Xi |year=1766 |orig-date=1189 |chapter-url={{NDLDC|2583035|/1/6|format=url}} |script-chapter=zh:大學 |trans-chapter=Great Learning |title=Shisho Shicchu (Sìshū Jízhù) |script-title=zh:四書集註 |language=zh |volume=1 |location=Kyoto, Japan |publisher=勝村治右衞門 |at=frame 6 |doi=10.11501/2583035 |id={{NDLPID|2583035}}}} A Meiwa 3 (=1766 CE) reprint of a classic Chinese textbook)
• The poem that the tutor referred to, in its original form {{transliteration|ja|nakakiyono tōnonefurino minamesame naminori funeno otono yokikana}}, is a palindrome ({{Cite encyclopedia|title=宝船|date=2006|encyclopedia=Nihon Kokugo Daijiten Concise edition (精選版 日本国語大辞典) via Kotobank|publisher=Shogakukan|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%A6%82%E6%98%AF%E6%88%91%E8%81%9E-110678|access-date=2022-01-11}}) of Japanese morae (similar to syllables).

Transcription and commentary:{{Cite book|title=Shoki Edo yomihon kaidanshū|script-title=ja:初期江戸読本怪談集|trans-title=Anthology of horror stories in early-stage 'yomihon' of Edo period|publisher=Kokusho Kankokai (国書刊行会)|date=2000-10-30|orig-date=1805|pages=654–657|author=二流間主東随舎|editor-last=Kondo|editor-first=Mizuki|language=ja|script-chapter=ja:聞書雨夜友（ききがきあまよのとも） - 一子に異名を付けて後悔せし話|series=江戸怪異綺想文芸大系|isbn=978-4-336-04271-2}}

• pp696-698 Commentary: (rough excerpt) the author {{lang|ja|東随舎}} is {{lang|ja|栗原幸十郎}}. {{lang|ja|栗原忠雄}}, {{lang|ja|青雲軒}} and {{lang|ja|松壽館老人}} are all his aliases.

The story gives no explanation of the origin or meanings of "Tekitekini{{Interp|...}}". The book was written by a storywriter and storyteller with pen name {{transliteration|ja|Tozuisha}}.

Other early records of this name include an 1893 book of fairy tales, where the child's name is {{transliteration|ja|Nīteki surionbō{{Interp|...}}}},{{cite book |last=Niwa |first=Teijiro |date=1893-11-13 |chapter-url={{NDLDC|757424|/1/49|format=url}} |chapter=(94) Nagaina o fushi hanashi |script-chapter=ja:(94) 長い名を付し話 |trans-chapter=(94) A story of naming a long name |title=Shinwa ippyakudai: katei kyokun |script-title=ja:新話一百題 : 家庭教訓 |trans-title=100 new stories. Home education |language=ja |location=Tokyo, Japan |publisher=益友社 |pages=82–83 |doi=10.11501/757424 |id={{NDLPID|757424}}}} (Meiji (era) 26 = 1893 CE)

• 「ニーテキ、スリ、オン、ポー、ソータカニュドハリマノベット、茶碗茶碓に引木の伊助」
• transcription: "Nīteki suri on bō sōtakanyudoHarimanobetto chawan chausuni hikigino Isuke"

and a lullaby {{transliteration|ja|Tekiteki onbō{{Interp|...}}}} in an 1898 catalog of folk songs.{{Cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Nihon kayō ruijū (日本歌謡類聚)|publisher=Hakubunkan|date=1898-05-02|pages=461–462|editor1-last=Ōwada|editor1-first=Tateki|series=続帝国文庫|language=ja|title=A lullaby. Azumino, Shinano Province. Sung while warming the baby by the fireside |script-title=ja:子守唄（信濃国）安曇野郡倭村 稚児を炬燵にあてつつうたふもの|volume=2 (下巻)|location=Tokyo, Japan|hdl=2027/keio.10810281031 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=keio.10810281031&view=1up&seq=529&skin=2021|ref={{SfnRef|大和田建樹|1898}}}} Polymath Minakata Kumagusu reported in 1913 a tongue twister {{transliteration|ja|Chiki chiki onbō{{Interp|...}}}} he learned 30 years ago, although this was played as a tongue twister, not a tale.Facsimile: {{Cite book|script-title=ja:郷土研究（全六冊）第一冊（復刻版）|publisher=名著出版|date=1975-10-25|language=ja|volume=2|location=Tokyo, Japan|id={{JPNO|00028355}}}}

• Bibliographic information of the original magazine article: {{Cite journal|journal=Kyōdo kenkyū (郷土研究)|date=1913-08-10|trans-title=Folk customs if Kishu (part 4)|script-title=ja:紀州俗伝(四)|pages=(49) 369|last=Minakata|first=Kumagusu|author-link=Minakata Kumagusu|volume=1|issue=6|publisher=Kyōdo kenkyūsha (郷土研究社)|language=ja|location=Tokyo, Japan|oclc=775579427}}
• p(49) 369: "I learned this 30 years ago from a person from Hyūga Province":
• 「ちきちきおんぼう、それおんぼう、そえたか入道、播磨の{{ruby-ja|別當|べつたう}}、{{ruby-ja|焼山彌次郎|やけやまやじらう}}、ちやかもかちやあぶるせんずり{{ruby-ja|観音|くわんのん}}、{{ruby-ja|久太郎別太郎|きうたらうべつたらう}}、むこにやすつぽろぽん」
• transcription: "Chiki chiki onbō soreonbō soetakanyūdō Harimanobettō yakeyamayajirō chakamokachāburusenzurikwannon kyūtarōbettarō mukonyasupporopon"

"{{transliteration|ja|Jugemu}}" is a very popular version in Japan today {{As of|2005|lc=y}}.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tjf.or.jp/takarabako/japaneseculture/29nihongo.htm|title=The Japanese Language Boom|access-date=2021-09-22|website=Takarabako|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922041758/https://www.tjf.or.jp/takarabako/japaneseculture/29nihongo.htm|archive-date=2021-09-22|url-status=live|publisher=The Japan Forum|year=2005}} It is a {{transliteration|ja|rakugo}} comedy, and a 1912 document suggests that it may have existed since the mid-19th century.Biography of a rakugo performer Hayashiya Shōzō the Fifth (:ja:林家正蔵#5代目). Published as a serial (literature) on a Japanese newspaper.

• {{cite news|trans-title=Shōdō, virtuoso of horror rakugo (1)|script-title=ja:怪談の正童（1）|newspaper=Yomiuri Shimbun|location=Japan|date=1912-04-08|author=Fuku (ふく生)|page=3|language=ja}}
• excerpts: Hayashiya Shōdō is now 89 years old. He recently changed his stage-name from Shōzō to Shōdō.
• excerpts: When he was 18 years old (in East Asian age reckoning#Japan), he entered apprenticeship to rakugo master Hayashiya Shōzō the Second (:ja:林家正蔵#2代目).
• {{cite news|trans-title=Shōdō, virtuoso of horror rakugo (2)|script-title=ja:怪談の正童（2）|newspaper=Yomiuri Shimbun|location=Japan|date=1912-04-09|author=Fuku (ふく生)|page=3|language=ja}}
• excerpts: He received a stage-name Shōkyō. His "Jigemu Jigemu" performance was good. Master Hayashiya Shōzō {{Interp|the Second}} was impressed, so adopted Shōkyō as a son.
• excerpts: But Shōkyō became arrogant. When he was 22 years old (in East Asian age reckoning), during around the Ansei era, he ran away from Master.
• {{cite news|trans-title=Shōdō, virtuoso of horror rakugo (4)|script-title=ja:怪談の正童（4）|newspaper=Yomiuri Shimbun|location=Japan|date=1912-04-11|author=Fuku (ふく生)|page=3|language=ja}}
• excerpts: Years later, when Shōkyō came back, he found that Master Hayashiya Shōzō {{Interp|the Second}} had already died in Ansei 5.
• Notes (not in the text):
• The article describes that Shōkyō runaway was in Ansei era, approximately 1855–1860 CE. However, this does not match with his age "22", which is calculated to be roughly around 1845 (1912 CE - 89 years old + 22 years old =1845 CE). But in either case, the article is suggesting that "Jigemu Jigemu" existed before 1860.
• No information about the actual storyline of the said "Jigemu Jigemu".

Extant records of the name "{{transliteration|ja|Jugemu}}" date back to 1884,Facsimile: {{cite journal |journal=Tōkyō keizai zasshi |trans-journal=Tokyo economist |script-journal=ja:東京経済雑誌 |publisher=Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha (日本経済評論社) |date=1982-01-20 |orig-date=1884 |language=ja |volume=17 明治17年7-9月 221-233号 |location=Tokyo, Japan |id={{NCID|AN00329943}} |script-title=ja:経済学釈義 |at=issue 224 p109 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2785659?urlappend=%3Bseq=137 |hdl=2027/uc1.c2785659 |via=HathiTrust}}

• Bibliographic information of the original magazine article: {{cite journal |journal=Tōkyō keizai zasshi |author=経済記者 |trans-title=Lecture on economics |script-title=ja:経済学釈義 |page=109 |date=1884-07-26 |volume=10 |issue=224 |publisher=Keizai Zasshisha |language=ja |id={{NCID|AN00159377}}}} (Meiji (era) 17 = 1884 CE) and the full story from 1912.{{cite book |author=San'yūtei Fukuenyū (三遊亭福円遊) |date=1912-06-07 |chapter-url={{NDLDC|891285|/1/37|format=url}} |chapter=Jugemu |script-chapter=ja:寿限無 |title=Kokkei Hyakumensō |script-title=ja:滑稽百面相 |language=ja |location=Tokyo |publisher=三芳屋 |pages=57–65 |doi=10.11501/891285 |id={{NDLPID|891285}}}}
• {{Wikisource-inline|:ja:寿限無}}

A typical version in 2022 goes:

:A child is named

::Jugemu Jugemu Gokō-no surikire Kaijarisuigyo-no Suigyōmatsu Unraimatsu Fūraimatsu Kūnerutokoro-ni Sumutokoro Yaburakōji-no burakōji Paipopaipo Paipo-no Shūringan Shūringan-no Gūrindai Gūrindai-no Ponpokopī-no Ponpokonā-no Chōkyūmei-no Chōsuke

:One day he hits his friend's head, causing a bump. The friend protests to Jugemu's parents. But while reciting Jugemu's name, the bump heals, so evidence is lost.{{cite web |url=https://www2.nhk.or.jp/school/movie/outline.cgi?das_id=D0005150091_00000 |title=Jugemu, the outline |script-title=ja:おはなしのくにクラシック – 落語「じゅげむ」あらすじ一覧 |access-date=2022-06-24 |publisher=NHK |website=NHK for School |language=ja |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220624032335/https://www2.nhk.or.jp/school/movie/outline.cgi?das_id=D0005150091_00000 |archive-date=2022-06-24 |url-status=live}}

"Jugemu" differs from typical The Child with a Long Name-type tales in that Jugemu himself does not suffer at all.

According to a memoire published in 1927, there was another {{transliteration|ja|rakugo}} performed around the 1880s.{{Cite journal|journal=日印協会会報 (Bulletin of Japan-India Association)|publisher=Japan-India Association|last=Noguchi|first=Fukudo|trans-title=My journey to India 40 years ago|script-title=ja:四十年前の印度旅行|date=1927-11-18|issue=42|pages=95–96|language=ja|location=Tokyo, Japan|id=NDLBibID 000008858223}}

• pp71-102: Full text of Noguchi's travelogue.
• p72: Noguchi leaves Kobe, Japan, on September 9, 1888, heading India.
• pp95-96: Episode of the long-name tale.
• p95: At Madras, Noguchi attends an international conference. For his turn of after-dinner speech, he chooses a tale he heard before at a {{transliteration|ja|yose}} (rakugo theater) in Kyoto.
• p96: "The name the priest gave was taken from the first portion of Chapter 26 Dhāraṇī in Lotus Sutra,"
• p96: The original punchline is: "The father calls out his son's name. A voice is heard down from the well, bubbling 'a-dabu-dabu-dabu'." But this punchline requires knowledge of how Buddhist chants are used in Japan. So, to suit the international audience, Noguchi changed the finale to "But it was too late!"
• Note (not in the article): This article indicates the original rakugo performance in Kyoto existed before 1888.

:The first child is named by a Shinto priest, but dies in infancy. So the parents ask a Buddhist priest to name their second child. The name is:

::Animanimanimamane shiresharite shyamiyashyai taisentemokutemokute aishabisoishabi shaeashae shamiyaarokyabashabishyani abendaranebite atandahareshite ukuremukure arareharare shugyashiasanmasanbi budabikkiridjitchi darumaharishude sogyanekushane bashabashashudaimandarāA 1930 reprint of Noguchi1927 with corrections: {{cite book |author=Fukudō Noguchi Zenshirō (復堂 野口善四郎) |date=1930-01-04 |chapter-url={{NDLDC|1151509|/1/228|format=url}} |chapter=Shi jū ni-nen mae no Indo ryokō |script-chapter=ja:四十二年前の印度旅行 |trans-chapter=My journey to India 42 years ago |script-title=ja:大鼎呂 |language=ja |location=東京 |publisher=二酉社 二酉名著刊行会 |pages=68–70 |doi=10.11501/1151509 |id={{NDLPID|1151509}}}}

• This book has no book-wide pagination. The travelogue's local pagination range is pp1–88.
• p4: Noguchi leaves Kobe, Japan, on September 9, 1888, heading India.
• pp68–70: Episode of the long-name tale.
• p69 (corrected version of the child's name): アニマニマニママネ、シレシヤリテ、シヤミヤシヤイ、タイセンテモクテモクテ、アイシヤビソイシヤビ、シヤエアシヤエ、シヤミヤアロキヤバシヤビシヤニ、アベンダラネビテ、アタンダハレシテ、ウクレムクレ、アラレハラレ、シユギヤシアサンマサンビ、ブダビツキリヂツチ、ダルマハリシユデ、ソギヤネクシヤネ、バシヤバシヤシユダイマンダラー

:It is taken from a dharani (Buddhist chants in Sanskrit). One day the child falls into a well and drowns.

The punchline is a black humor relating Buddhist chants to Japanese funerals.In modern Japan, Buddhism rites are mostly associated with funerals: {{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/world/asia/14japan.html |title=In Japan, Buddhism May Be Dying Out |date=2008-07-14 |access-date=2022-07-03 |website=New York Times |last=Onishi |first=Norimitsu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124012355/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/world/asia/14japan.html/ |archive-date=2022-01-24 |url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}"dabudabu" can mean the watery noise of drowning, or the sound of a Buddhist chant: {{Cite encyclopedia|title=dabudabu|script-title=ja:だぶだぶ|date=2006|encyclopedia=Nihon Kokugo Daijiten Concise edition (精選版 日本国語大辞典) via Kotobank|publisher=Shogakukan|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%81%A0%E3%81%B6%E3%81%A0%E3%81%B6-562334|access-date=2022-07-03|trans-quote=(1-1) Depiction of sloshing; (1-5) Chanting a Buddhist chant. From "dabutsu" (from Amitābha)}}

Systematic collection of Japanese folklore began in the 1910s.{{cite encyclopedia |editor-link=NHK |editor=NHK (日本放送協会) |date=1948-03-01 |url={{NDLDC|1124189|/1/126|format=url}} |title=Nagaina no kodomo |script-title=ja:長い名の子供 |trans-title=The Child with a Long Name |encyclopedia=Nihon mukashibanashi meii (日本昔話名彙) |language=ja |publisher=日本放送出版協会 |pages=223–224 |doi=10.11501/1124189 |id={{NDLPID|1124189}} |ref={{Sfnref|Yanagita|1948}} |author1= }}

• p1 Foreword by Kunio Yanagita: "the history of folktale collection in Japan is merely 30 years"
• pp223-224: The Child with a Long Name

A summary compilation published in 1958 lists 66 samples of The Child with a Long Name-type folktales in Japan.{{cite book |title=Nihon mukashibanashi shūsei |trans-title=Compilation of Japanese Folktales |script-title=ja:日本昔話集成 第3部 笑話 2 |volume=3 Jokes part 2 |trans-chapter=638 Child with a long name |script-chapter=ja:638 長い名の子 |publisher=Kadokawa Shoten |date=1958-06-30 |pages=737–744 |last=Seki |first=Keigo |author-link=Keigo Seki |oclc=25013059 |id={{JPNO|22912993}} |ref={{Sfnref|Seki|1958v3-2}}}}

• pp737-738: typical specimen from Niigata prefecture (新潟 南蒲原郡葛巻村)
• p740: citation for 新潟 南蒲原郡葛巻村: 加無波良 p103
• p911: 加無波良 = 加無波良譚 by 文野白駒. Tokyo, Showa 7 (=1932 CE)

Examples of the short-named child's name are {{transliteration|ja|Chiyori}} (1914, folklore){{Cite journal|journal=Kyōdo Kenkyū (郷土研究, Studies of native lands)|year=1914|script-title=ja:長い名|volume=2|pages=312–313|last=Nakamura|first=Seibun|issue=5|publisher=Kyōdo Kenkyūsha (郷土研究社)|language=ja|location=Tokyo, Japan}} in facsimile: {{Cite book|title=Kyōdo Kenkyū Facsimile (郷土研究（全六冊）第二冊（復刻版）)|publisher=名著出版|date=1975-11-22|language=ja|volume=2|location=Tokyo, Japan}}

• A version from Echigo Province:「{{ruby-ja|大|おほ}}入道{{ruby-ja|小|こう}}入道、まっぴら入道ひら入道、へいとこへいとこへいがのこ、へめたにかめた、一ちようぎりかちようぎりか、ちよちよらのちよぎりか、しきしきあんどのへいあんじ、てんもくもくどの榮助」
• A version from Kaga Province
• The long name: 春の日の{{ruby-ja|雞|とり}}のとっさか（雞冠）{{ruby-ja|立烏帽子|たてえぼし}}
• The short name: {{Nihongo||ちよりさん|Chiyorisan}}

and {{transliteration|ja|Chon}} (1921, children's literature).{{cite book |last=Fujisawa |first=Morihiko |date=1921-04-18 |chapter-url={{NDLDC|968010|/1/7|format=url}} |chapter=Chiyongiri no Chiyon-san |script-chapter=ja:ちよんぎりのちよんさん |trans-chapter=Chon the chopped-off |title=Kokkei dōwa-shū |script-title=ja:滑稽童話集 |trans-title=Humorous fairy tale collection |language=ja |series=純日本童話集 [Pure Japanese Fairy Tale Collection] |volume=1 |publisher=国民書院 |pages=1–7 |doi=10.11501/968010 |id={{NDLPID|968010}}}}

• The short name: {{Nihongo||ちょん|Chon}}
• The long name: 大入道、小入道、まっぴら入道ひら入道、背高入道、播磨の別当、へいとこへいとこへいがのこ、へめたにかめた、一丁ぎりか丁ぎりか、ちよちよらのちよぎりか二丁ぎりか、丁に丁にちょうらくに、ちょう太郎びつにちょうびつに、あの山のこの山の、ああ申すこう申す、申す申すの申し子の、しきしきあんどのへいあんじ、てんもくもくのもくぞう坊、茶碗茶臼の秘々蔵の栄助

Remarks like "That's why now people won't use too long names." can be seen in Japanese versions, such as a fairytale in an 1896 children's magazine.{{Cite journal|journal=Shōkokumin (少国民)|author=Imoyama (芋仙)|year=1896|title=Naganatarō|script-title=ja:長名太郎（ながなたろう）|volume=8|issue=18|pages=5–8|publisher=鳴皐書院|language=ja|doi=10.11501/1589275|id={{JPNO|00011372}}|location=Tokyo, Japan}}

• p5: The first child {{transliteration|ja|Hanske}} died of dysentery, the second {{transliteration|ja|Nagashi}} died of diphtheria, so they name the third child with a long name. The priest made the name from a dictionary, by taking the first letter on each page.
• The name「ヘットコ、モッコ、ヘンメノコ、カミエンメ、エンメジヤ、大坂城ト、播磨ノ別當、茶碗茶ンコロ、テンコロ左衛門鶴龜」
• p7 (excerpts): One day the child fell into the well. Calling for rescue, people recite his name. Fortunately, the name was so long that half of the name, after the "Osakajō" part, still hung outside the well. So the rescuers pulled the name to lift the boy, but it was too late. So, now people don't give too long names.

Scholastic records released an LP record of the story in 1968.Mosel, Arlene. Tikki Tikki Tembo (LP record). Narrated by George Rose with music by Joseph Raposo. Weston, CT: Weston Woods Studios, 1970. OCLC 2945747. Weston Woods Studios produced a filmstrip and cassette tape version in 1970, which was later distributed on VHS and DVD.Mosel, Arlene. Tikki Tikki Tembo (filmstrip, cassette, and booklet). Narrated by Peter Thomas with music by Howard Rovics. Weston, CT: Weston Woods Studios, 1970. OCLC 6638461.Mosel, Arlene. Tikki Tikki Tembo (VHS). Narrated by Peter Thomas with music by Howard Rovics. Weston, CT: Weston Woods Studios, 1985. OCLC 12055672.Schindel, Morton, et al. Tikki Tikki Tembo and More Favorite Tales (DVD). Narrated by Peter Thomas with music by Howard Rovics. Norwalk, CT: Weston Woods Studios, 2005. OCLC 60565621.

Translations of the book include:

• Tikki Tikki tembo (1975, Afrikaans, {{ISBN|0949975257}})
• Eka Tikki Tikki Tembo (1976, Zulu, {{ISBN|0869600648}})
• Tikki, Tikki, Tembo (1994, Spanish, {{ISBN|1880507137}})
• Tikki tikki tembo (1995, Xhosa, {{ISBN|1868430669}})

File:WhiteHouseTikkiTikkiTembo2003.jpg 2003 Christmas decoration depicting a scene from Tikki Tikki Tembo]]

• In 1971 Canadian composer Harry Freedman set the story to music. His 10-minute work, entitled Tikki Tikki Tembo, is scored for narrator and woodwind quintet.
• A 1975 jazz album Brown Rice by Don Cherry contains the song "Brown Rice", in which the artist refers to Tikki Tikki Tembo.
• A 1990 punk rock album by the band Cringer was titled Tikki Tikki Tembo No Sa Rembo Chari Bari Ruchi Pip Peri Pembo.[http://digitalmeltd0wn.blogspot.com/2009/04/cringer-tikki-tikki-tembo-no-sa-rembo.html "Cringer - Tikki Tikki Tembo No Sa Rembo Chari Bari Ruchi Pip Peri Pembo"]. Digital Meltd0wn Music Blog. Accessed February 3, 2013.
• The 2003 Christmas decorations at the White House included a depiction of a scene from Tikki Tikki Tembo.Administration of President George W. Bush. [https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/holiday/2003/christmas03-essay/03.html "The White House Christmas 2003. Tikki Tikki Tembo as retold by Arlene Mosel."] U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Accessed February 5, 2013.
• A song by Welsh group Anweledig on their 2004 EP Byw is titled "Tikki Tikki Tembo" and tells some of the story.
• The 2010 song "Wildstyle Method" by Bassnectar says Tikki Tikki Tembo's full name during certain parts of the song.
• A variation of the tale was featured in an episode of Lamb Chop's Play-Along.

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A 1965 pop rock song "(You Got) The Gamma Goochee" by Gamma Goochee Himself{{cite AV media|author=Gamma Goochee Himself|title=(You Got) The Gamma Goochee|medium=EP record|date=1965|publisher=Colpx Records|id=CP 786}} (John Mangiagli){{Cite journal |title=Catalog of copyright entries |journal=Catalog of Copyright Entries.musical Compositions |publisher=Library of Congress |year=1967 |location=Washington |pages=2132 |language=en |volume=series 3, volume 19, part 5, number 2, Music, July–December 1965 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015085477449?urlappend=%3Bseq=712 |quote=(You've got the) "Gamma Goochie"; w & m John Mangiagli}}{{Cite journal |title=The Gamma Goochee Himself! |journal=Roctober |last=Milstein |first=Phil |issue=36 |pages=20–27 |year=2003 |location=Chicago, Illinois |language=en}} chants

:"Nicki Nicki Nimbo No So Limbo Oo Ma Moochi Gamma Gamma Goochee"

of "Long-Name-No-Can-Say". The song was covered by The Kingsmen (1965){{cite web|url=http://louielouie.org/discography/|title=The Kingsmen Discography|access-date=November 9, 2019}} which ranked #98 in Cashbox (magazine) singles.{{Cite web |url=https://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19651211.html |title=Cash Box Top 100 singles – Week ending December11, 1965 |access-date=2022-06-29 |website=Cashbox Magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210904175702/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19651211.html |archive-date=2021-09-04 |url-status=live |orig-date=1965 |language=en |quote=98 (You Got) THE GAMMA GOOCHEE Kingsmen – Wand 1107}} It was covered by other musicians too,{{r|"Roctober2003_GammaGoochie"|page=23}} such as The Persian Market (spelled "The Gamma Goochie"),{{Cite book |title=Library of Congress catalogs – Music |series=National union catalog :music, books on music and sound recordings |publisher=Library of Congress |year=1985 |pages=181 |language=en |volume=1 A–O |publication-place=Washington D.C. |quote=The cicadelic 60's "never existed" (vol. 4) The gamma goochie (The Persian Market) |hdl=2027/uiug.30112024897222?urlappend=%3Bseq=195}} and Joe Walsh (1991).{{Cite web |url=https://www.joewalsh.com/releases/ordinary_average_guy |title=Releases / Ordinary Average Guy |access-date=2022-06-29 |website=Joe Walsh |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508063414/https://joewalsh.com/releases/ordinary_average_guy |archive-date=2021-05-08 |url-status=live |language=en}}

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• {{YouTube|wOHngXg6Fts|Tikki Tikki Tembo, a dramatic reading of the book by Peter Thomas with music by Howard Rovics}}
• [http://www.bonedaddyband.com/mp3/nikkitembo.mp3 "Long Name No Can Say"], told by Paul Wing
• {{cite journal |author= Kara, Çiğdem |date= Winter 2011 |title=Tiki Tiki Tempo: Localization of the Child With a Long Name Into Turkish Context |journal=Turkish Studies: International Periodical for the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=1353–1365 |url= http://www.turkishstudies.net/Makaleler/608778940_kara%C3%A7i%C4%9Fdem.pdf}}
• {{cite web |url= http://www.gracelinblog.com/2012/04/rethinking-tikki-tikki-tembo.html|title= Rethinking Tikki Tikki Tembo | author= Rideout, Irene |date= April 6, 2012 |publisher= GraceLinBlog: Happenings in the Life of Children's Author Grace Lin}}

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