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Kamp, Peter van de (astronomer)
The average components of the velocities of the local stellar neighbourhood also can be used to demonstrate the so-called stream motion. Calculations based on the Dutch-born American astronomer Peter van de Kamp’s table of stars within 17 light-years, excluding the star of greatest anomalous velocity, reveal that dispersions in the V direction and the W direction are approxima...
kampaku (Japanese official)
(Japanese: “white barrier”), in Japanese history, office of chief councillor or regent to an adult emperor. The post was created in the Heian period (794–1185) and was thereafter customarily held by members of the Fujiwara clan. O...
Kampala (Uganda)
capital and largest city of Uganda. It occupies a series of hills at an elevation of about 3,900 feet (1,190 metres) and is situated in the southern part of the country, just north of Lake Victoria. Kampala lies just north of Mengo, the capital of the kingdom of Buganda in the 19th century. It was selected in 1890 by Capt. Frederick...
Kampan (Tamil poet)
sometimes called the finest Tamil poet, whose principal achievement is the epic Irāmāvatāram (Rama’s Incarnation)....
Kampen (Netherlands)
gemeente (municipality) and port, north-central Netherlands. It is situated on the southwest side of the IJssel River near its influx into Lake Ketel....
Kampeska City (South Dakota, United States)
city, seat (1878) of Codington county, eastern South Dakota, U.S. It lies on the Big Sioux River, between Lakes Kampeska and Pelican, about 95 miles (155 km) north of Sioux Falls. It was laid out in 1878 following the extension of the Winona and St. Peter Railroad (now part of the Union Pa...
Kampf der Tertia, Der (work by Speyer)
Between the world wars, prose showed few high points and, after the advent of Hitler, many low ones. Der Kampf der Tertia (1927; “The Third-Form Struggle”), by Wilhelm Speyer, was Germany’s excellent contribution to the genre of the school story. Erich Kästner’s Emil and the Detectives (1929) ranked not only as a work of art, presenting city boys wi...
“Kampf mit dem Dämon, Der” (work by Zweig)
...Heinrich von Kleist, and Friedrich Nietzsche (Der Kampf mit dem Dämon, 1925; Master Builders). He achieved popularity with Sternstunden der Menschheit (1928; The Tide of Fortune), five historical portraits in miniature. He wrote full-scale,......
Kampf um Rom, Ein (work by Dahn)
...1876; “The Amalings”). The historical novel, however, is the genre in which Dahn was most successful. He won great acclaim for Ein Kampf um Rom, 4 vol. (1876–78; “A Struggle for Rome”), in which he reconstructed the decline and fall of the Ostrogothic empire in Italy....
Kampf und Recht des Stärkeren und seine Entwickelung, Der (work by Katō Hiroyuki)
...and in 1906 was made a member of the Privy Council, a position that heightened his influence on state policy. By that time he had gained international recognition from the 1893 German publication of his Der Kampf ums Recht des Stärkeren und seine Entwickelung (1893; “War, Right of the Strongest, and Evolution”)....
kampf zone (botany)
...to the treeless condition is more commonly gradual. Initially in a closed, tightly spaced forest (forest line), the spacing between trees widens rapidly as tree height decreases (the kampf zone). This zone gives way to a region of low twisted and stunted trees called the krummholz. Together, the kampf zone and the krummholz constitute the......
“Kämpfe Gottes, Die” (work by Levi ben Gershom)
...are complex, he presupposed an audience familiar with these commentaries, medieval astronomical literature, and the works of Averroës when he wrote (1317–29) his major work, Sefer milḥamot Adonai (“The Book of the Wars of the Lord”; partial trans. Die Kämpfe Gottes, 2 vol.). Divided into six parts, the work treats exhaustively of the......
Kämpfer, Engelbert (German traveler)
German traveler whose writings are a valuable source of information on 17th-century Iran and Japan....
Kamphaeng Phet (Thailand)
town, western Thailand. It lies along the Ping River and is an old walled settlement with notable ruins and temples and a museum. Rice cultivation is the main economic activity in the surrounding area, and teak is cut in the forested highlands to the west. Pop. (2000) 43,648....
Kampil (India)
...the principal exports, together with perfume, saltpetre, and cotton prints. There are a number of ancient historic sites in the area. Nearby are the ruined tombs of former rulers. The town of Kampil, northwest of the municipality, is mentioned in epics of the 2nd century bce and earlier; it has numerous ancient temples. Sankisa (ancient Samkashya), to the west, was a famous Buddhi...
Kampinos National Park (park, Poland)
Kampinos National Park is one of Poland’s largest national parks and is popular with tourists making day trips from Warsaw to hike among the park’s primeval forests, sand dunes, and marshland. The main cultural centre of the province, and, alongside Krakow, in all of Poland, is Warsaw, which is home to dozens of theatres, the Nat...
kampong (village)
The growth of large cities in Java has produced an urban proletariat, mostly of rural origin, who live in makeshift huts in enclosed neighbourhoods called kampongs. Javanese villages are compact groups of single-family houses, generally built of bamboo, surrounding a central square. Though rice is the main food crop, a variety of......
Kampong Ayer (Brunei)
...the capital and largest urban centre. The city is located on the Brunei River about 9 miles (14 km) from its mouth on Brunei Bay. Adjacent to the modern section of the city is an older part called Kampong Ayer, where Brunei Malays live in houses built on stilts along inlets of the river. The area surrounding the cities of Kuala Belait and.....
Kâmpóng Cham (Cambodia)
town, south-central Cambodia. The town lies on the right bank of the Mekong River and is an important river port about 45 miles (75 km) northeast of Phnom Penh, the national capital. It has an airfield, a cotton-textile mill, a rice mill, and agricultu...
Kâmpóng Chhnăng (Cambodia)
town, central Cambodia. Kâmpóng Chhnăng is located just west of the Sab River and has port facilities. It is connected to Phnom Penh, the national capital, by a national highway route and railway....
Kâmpóng Saôm (Cambodia)
town, autonomous municipality, and the only deepwater port of Cambodia, situated on a peninsula of the Gulf of Thailand. The port is connected with Phnom Penh, the national capital, by two major highways. It was first opened to ocean traffic in 1956; i...
Kâmpóng Spœ (Cambodia)
town, south-central Cambodia. The town lies along the Tnaôt River at the foot of the Dâmrei (“Elephant”) Mountains and astride a national highway linking Phnom Penh, the national capital, with Kâmpóng Saôm, the country’s principal seaport....
Kampong Thom (Cambodia)
town, north-central Cambodia. Kâmpóng Thum lies along the Sên River and is linked to Phnom Penh, the national capital, by national highway routes....
Kâmpóng Thum (Cambodia)
town, north-central Cambodia. Kâmpóng Thum lies along the Sên River and is linked to Phnom Penh, the national capital, by national highway routes....
Kâmpôt (Cambodia)
town, southern Cambodia. Kâmpôt is located near the mouth of the Koh Sla River. In the 19th century it was the country’s chief port, but this function was taken over in the 1950s by Kâmpóng Saôm. It is connected to Phnom Penh, the national capital, and to Kâmpóng Saôm (Sihanoukville) by a national highway route and a...
Kamprad, Ingvar (Swedish businessman)
Swedish entrepreneur who in 1943 founded IKEA, the world’s largest furniture retailer in the early 21st century....
Kamptozoa (invertebrate)
any member of the phylum Entoprocta, a group of aquatic invertebrate animals composed of about 150 species. Entoprocts occur throughout the world, primarily in marine habitats, although one genus, Urnatella, is a freshwater form. Entoprocts may either exist singly or form colonies of communicating members, called zooids, by budding. The zooids measure only about 0.4 to 5 ...
Kampuchea, People’s Republic of
Country, Southeast Asia....
Kampuchea People’s Revolutionary Party (political party, Cambodia)
...parties in Cambodia are the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), the FUNCINPEC Party, and the Sam Rainsy Party. The CPP is a noncommunist party descended from the pro-Vietnam and communist Kampuchean People’s Revolutionary Party. The FUNCINPEC Party is composed of the royalist supporters of the former king Norodom Sihanouk and his son Prince Ranariddh (although the...
Kampuchean (people)
any member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia. Smaller numbers of Khmer also live in southeastern Thailand and the Mekong River delta of southern Vietnam. The Khmer language belongs to the Mon-Khmer family, ...
Kāmrān (Afghani leader)
The Bārakzay were now dominant. This situation incited the jealousy of Kāmrān, Maḥmūd’s eldest son, who seized and blinded Fatḥ Khan. Later Shah Maḥmūd had him cut to pieces....
Kamrup Sanctuary (wildlife sanctuary, India)
wildlife sanctuary in western Assam state, eastern India. It is situated at the foot of the Himalayas on the eastern bank of the Manas River, 92 miles (153 km) west of Guwahati. Established in 1928, it has an area of some 200 square miles (520 square km) and lies in a dense, mixed semievergreen, evergreen, and wet-deciduous forest region. Th...
Kaṃsa (king of Mathura)
...They relate how Krishna (literally “black,” or “dark as a cloud”) was born into the Yādava clan, the son of Vasudeva and Devakī, sister of Kaṃsa, the wicked king of Mathura (in modern Uttar Pradesh). Kaṃsa, hearing a prophecy that he should be destroyed by......
Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko (legendary emperor of Japan)
legendary first emperor of Japan and founder of the imperial dynasty....
Kamuela (village, Hawaii, United States)
village, Hawaii county, north-central Hawaii island, Hawaii, U.S. It is situated on the Mauna Kea–Kohala Saddle (2,669 feet [814 metres]), northeast of Kailua-Kona. In the 1790s the English navigator George Vancouver presented a gift of five cattle to King Kamehameha I. The king...
Kamula, Mount (mountain, Ukraine)
...and gorges, some more than 1,000 feet (300 metres) deep. On the west the Dnieper Upland is abutted by the rugged Volyn-Podilsk Upland, which rises to 1,545 feet (471 metres) at its highest point, Mount Kamula. West of the Volyn-Podilsk Upland, in extreme western Ukraine, the parallel ranges of the Carpathian Mountains—one of the most picturesque areas in the country—extend for......
Kamŭn Temple (temple, Korea)
Buddhist bronze miniature shrines for sharira were sometimes placed inside stone pagodas. The best example, from the western pagoda of the Kamŭn Temple site, is a square platform on which a miniature glass bottle containing the sharira is placed under a rich canopy supported by four corner poles. The shrine was......
Kamvoúnia Mountains (mountains, Greece)
...spurs thrusting out from the main Píndos mass. A number of distinctive basins and plains lie amid these upland ribs. The northernmost, a rather broken spur called the Kamvoúnia Mountains, runs along the coast of the Gulf of Thermaïkós and continues south to form the peninsula bounding one side of Vólou Bay. Among its peaks are Mount......
Kamvoúnia Óri (mountains, Greece)
...spurs thrusting out from the main Píndos mass. A number of distinctive basins and plains lie amid these upland ribs. The northernmost, a rather broken spur called the Kamvoúnia Mountains, runs along the coast of the Gulf of Thermaïkós and continues south to form the peninsula bounding one side of Vólou Bay. Among its peaks are Mount......
Kam’yanets-Podilskyy (Ukraine)
city, western Ukraine, on the Smotrych River. The city is one of the largest and oldest in the Dniester River basin, dating to at least the 11th century. Lying at a superbly defensible site where the river forms a loop, it was long a frontier fortress and centre of the Podolia (Podillya) region. The origin...
Kamyanske (Ukraine)
city, southern Ukraine, along the Dnieper River. Founded about 1750 as the Cossack settlement of Kamenskoye (Kamyanske), the town grew after 1889 with the developing metallurgical industry. The Soviets renamed it Dneprodzerzhinsk in 1936 to honour the former Soviet ...
Kamyshin (Russia)
city, Volgograd oblast (region), western Russia. The city lies along the Volga River and the Volgograd reservoir. In 1697 Peter I the Great built a fort, Petrovsk, to protect workmen attempting to construct a canal between the Volga and Don rivers. Renamed Dmitriyevsk in 1710 and ...
Kamyšin (Russia)
city, Volgograd oblast (region), western Russia. The city lies along the Volga River and the Volgograd reservoir. In 1697 Peter I the Great built a fort, Petrovsk, to protect workmen attempting to construct a canal between the Volga and Don rivers. Renamed Dmitriyevsk in 1710 and ...
Kan Chiang (river, China)
river, chiefly in Jiangxi sheng (province), China. The Gan River is one of the principal southern tributaries of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang). Its headwaters rise in Guangdong province, where the Dayu Mountai...
Kan language (Chinese language)
Chinese language of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken primarily in Jiangxi province and the southeastern corner of Hubei province. According to some scholars, there are five primary dialects: Changjing, Yiping, Jiliang, Fuguang, and Yingyi. Gan is somewhat intelligible with Mandarin and Wu, but it has much in common ...
kān wa kān (Arabic poetry form)
...were added several that utilized the colloquial form of the Arabic language (the qūmā, for example, and the kān wa kān). But the two additional forms that have occasioned the most interest among scholars originated in the Iberian Peninsula: the ......
Kan-chou (China)
city, southern Jiangxi sheng (province), southeastern China. It is located on the Gan River and is a natural route centre at the confluence of the various river systems that branch off from the north-south route to Nanchang, the provincial capital....
“Kan-gyur” (Buddhist literature)
the collection of Tibetan Buddhist sacred literature representing the “Word of the Buddha”—as distinct from the Bstan-’gyur (“Translation of Teachings”), or collection of commentaries and miscellaneous works. This body of canonical literature contains more than 1,000 works, most of them originally written in Sanskrit and most translated (with great ...
Kan-su (province, China)
Province (pop., 2002 est.: 25,930,000), north-central China....
Kan-Too Choksu (mountain, Asia)
peak in the Tien Shan range of Central Asia, at the juncture of the boundaries between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, China. Situated in a heavily glaciated mountain knot, the mountain rises to...
kana (Japanese writing)
two parallel modern Japanese syllabaries (katakana and hiragana), each of which independently represents all the sounds of the Japanese language. Although each derives its simple elements from Chinese characters, the two serve different purposes and differ stylistically....
kana-zōshi (Japanese literary genre)
The general name for the prose composed between 1600 and 1682 is kana-zōshi, or “kana books,” the name originally having been used to distinguish popular writings in the Japanese syllabary from more-learned works in Chinese. The genre embraced not only fiction but also works of a near-historical nature, pious tracts, books of practical....
Kanab (Utah, United States)
city, seat (1864) of Kane county, southwestern Utah, U.S., on Kanab Creek, at the foot of Vermilion Cliffs, just north of the Arizona line. Settlement was first made in 1864 around Fort Kanab (from a Paiute Indian word meaning “willow”) but was abandoned because of Indian attacks. In 1870 Mormon missionaries reoccupied the place, which developed as a trading centre...
Kaṇāda (Indian philosopher)
The Vaiśeṣika-sūtras were written by Kaṇāda, a philosopher who flourished c. 2nd–4th centuries. The system owes its name to the fact that it admits ultimate particularities (viśeṣa). The metaphysics is, therefore, pluralistic....
Kanada Tokumitsu (Japanese religious leader)
...term for “church”). Hito-no-michi was a development of an earlier religious movement, Tokumitsu-kyō, named after its founder, Kanada Tokumitsu (1863–1919), who taught that the sufferings of his followers could be transferred to him by divine mediation and that he would vicariously endure their troubles. Hito-no-m...
“Kanadehon Chūshingura” (drama by Takeda Izumo and others)
classic play cycle of the Japanese kabuki theatre. The kabuki drama was adapted from an original written about 1748 for the puppet theatre (bunraku) by Takeda Izumo with Namiki Sōsuke (Senryū) and Miyoshi Shōraku. In 11 acts it dramatizes the incidents that took place from 1701 to 1703, when 47 rōnin (masterless samurai) waited two years before avenging themselve...
kanaga (African mask)
...while he was in the form of a serpent. Other important masks used in public ceremonies to ensure the passage of the deceased into the realm of the ancestors include the kanaga mask, whose architectonic form represents an array of concepts, animals, and the authority of God; and the satimbe mask, a rectangular face......
kanaga (African symbol)
...federation and its member states was to have equal vertical stripes of green-yellow-red with a black stylized human figure in the centre, his arms raised toward heaven. This symbol, known as the kanaga, originated with the Dogon people of Mali and was given modern meaning by the Negritude movement of West African and Caribbean intellectuals. In 1960, when Senegal and Mali split into......
Kanaga Island (island, Alaska, United States)
one of the Andreanof Islands of the Aleutian Islands chain, southwestern Alaska, U.S. The uninhabited island measures 30 miles (50 km) long and 4 to 8 miles (6.5 to 13 km) wide; its northern tip is the site of the Kanaga Volcano, which rises to 4,287 feet (1,307 metres) and is roughly 3 miles (5 km) in diameter at its base. It is separated f...
Kanaga Volcano (volcano, Alaska, United States)
...Islands of the Aleutian Islands chain, southwestern Alaska, U.S. The uninhabited island measures 30 miles (50 km) long and 4 to 8 miles (6.5 to 13 km) wide; its northern tip is the site of the Kanaga Volcano, which rises to 4,287 feet (1,307 metres) and is roughly 3 miles (5 km) in diameter at its base. It is separated from Tanaga Island by the Kanaga Pass (water passage). Kanaga may be......
Kanagaki Robun (Japanese author)
Japanese writer of humorous fiction who brought a traditional satirical art to bear on the peculiarities of Japanese society in the process of modernization....
Kanagawa (prefecture, Japan)
ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, located south of Tokyo and bordered by Tokyo Bay to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The eastern coast is an important part of the Keihin Industrial Zone; Yokohama, Tokyo’s p...
Kanagawa, Treaty of (Japan-United States [1854])
(March 31, 1854), Japan’s first treaty with a Western nation. Concluded by representatives of the United States and Japan at Kanagawa (now part of Yokohama), it marked the end of Japan’s period of seclusion (1639–1854). The treaty was signed as a result of pressure from U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry, who sailed into ...
kanak (New Caledonian culture)
Melanesians make up more than two-fifths of the population and Europeans about one-third. Their differing cultures have given rise to two distinct ways of life, known as kanak and caldoche; people of mixed descent tend to adhere to one or the other. The kanak identity is based on......
Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (political party, New Caledonia)
...The French government granted complete self-government in territorial affairs under the Lemoine Statute of 1984, but the Independence Front rejected the statute and reconstituted itself as the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (Front de Libération Nationale Kanake et Socialiste; FLNKS). The FLNKS boycotted the elections in that year and, in an uprising, temporarily captured......
Kanaka (people)
(Hawaiian: “Person,” or “Man”), in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, any of the South Pacific islanders employed in Queensland, Australia, on sugar plantations or cattle stations or as servants in towns. The islanders were first introduced into Queensland in 1847 for employment on cotton plantations; in succeeding years they f...
“Kanał” (film by Wajda)
...His first three films, Pokolenie (1954; A Generation), Kanał (1957; Canal), and Popiół i diament (1958; Ashes and Diamonds), won prizes at international ......
Kanaloa (Polynesian deity)
The Hawaiians held a vague belief in a future existence. They had four principal gods—Kane, Kanaloa, Ku, and Lono—and innumerable lesser gods and tutelary deities. Animals, plants, places, professions, families, and all other objects and forces had their gods or spirits. Temples of stone and idols of wood abounded, and hardly anything was undertaken without religious ceremonies.......
Kanaloa (island, Hawaii, United States)
volcanic island, Maui county, Hawaii, U.S. It lies 6 miles (10 km) off the southwestern shore of Maui island, from which it is separated by the Alalakeiki Channel. It is 45 square miles (117 square km) in area (the smallest of the main Hawaiian Islands...
Kanalstrahlen (physics)
...He was primarily interested in electrical discharges in moderate to high vacuums. In 1886 he discovered what he termed Kanalstrahlen, or canal rays, also called positive rays; these are positively charged ions that are accelerated toward and through a perforated cathode in an evacuated tube. He also contributed greatly to the study o...
Kan’ami (Japanese actor, playwright, and musician)
Japanese actor, playwright, and musician who was one of the founders of Noh drama....
Kan’ami Kiyotsugu (Japanese actor, playwright, and musician)
Japanese actor, playwright, and musician who was one of the founders of Noh drama....
Kanamī, Muḥammad al- (Nigerian sheikh)
...of Fulani rebellion and invasion had reduced its ancient monarchy to impotence. Bornu and Kanem, however, had their own clerical class and tradition, and in the latter province arose a new leader, Muḥammad al-Kānemī, who asserted that the Fulani clerics did not have a unique right to interpret Muslim law for the government of humanity. Al-Kānemī was able to......
Kananaios (Christian Apostle)
one of the Twelve Apostles. In the Gospels of Mark and Matthew, he bears the epithet Kananaios, or the Cananaean, often wrongly interpreted to mean “from Cana” or “from Canaan.” Kananaios is the Greek transliteration of an Aramaic word, qanʾ anaya, meaning “the Zealot,” the title given him...
Kananga (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
city, south-central Democratic Republic of the Congo, situated just east of the Lulua River, a tributary of the Kasai. It is on road and rail routes to Lubumbashi (southeast) and the Kasai River port of Ilebo (northwest) and has air links to those and other Congolese cities. It was named Luluabourg in 1884...
Kanapoi (anthropological and archaeological site, Kenya)
site of paleoanthropological excavations in northern Kenya southwest of Lake Turkana (Lake Rudolf), best known for its fossils of Australopithecus anamensis, an early hominin (member of the human lineage) dating to between 3.9 and 4.2 ...
Kanapoi fossil (paleontology)
site of paleoanthropological excavations in northern Kenya southwest of Lake Turkana (Lake Rudolf), best known for its fossils of Australopithecus anamensis, an early hominin (member of the human lineage) dating to between 3.9 and 4.2 million years ago. Among these fossils is a relatively complete shinbone with features......
Kanara (region, India)
region along the Malabar Coast of the Arabian Sea, western Karnataka state, India. It is bounded on the east by the Western Ghats. Formerly divided between Mumbai (Bombay) to the north and Chennai (Madras) to the southeast, the region became part of Mysore state in t...
Kanarak (India)
historic village, east-central Orissa state, eastern India, on the Bay of Bengal coast. It is famous for its 13th-century Surya Deula (or Surya Deul), popularly known as the Sun Temple....
kanāreh (carpet)
...some 18 × 8 feet (5.5 × 2.5 metres), is placed in the centre. Flanking the mīān farsh are two runners, or kanārehs, which are mainly used for walking and which measure some 18 × 3 feet (5.5 × 1 metres). The principal rug, or kellegi...
Kanarese language
member of the Dravidian language family and the official language of the state of Karnataka in southern India. Kannada is also spoken in the states that border Karnataka. Early 21st-century census data indicated that some 38 million individuals spoke Kannada as their first language; anot...
Kanarese literature (Indian literature)
the literature written in Kannada, which, like the other languages of South India, is of the Dravidian family. The earliest records in Kannada are inscriptions dating from the 6th century ad onward. The earliest literary work is the Kavirājamārga (c. ad 850), a treatise on poetics based on a Sanskrit model. Nearly all of the extant early text...
Kanáris, Konstantínos (Greek statesman)
Greek naval officer and statesman who achieved fame for his exploits against the Turks during the War of Greek Independence (1821–32)....
kanat (water-supply system)
ancient type of water-supply system, developed and still used in arid regions of the world. A qanāt taps underground mountain water sources trapped in and beneath the upper reaches of alluvial fans and channels the water downhill through a series of gently sloping tunnels, often several kilometres long, to the p...
Kanauj (India)
town, central Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. Kannauj is situated near the Ganges (Ganga) River northwest of Kanpur, with which it has road and rail connections. Its name probably has more popular spellings than any other place-name in India. Kannauj has existed since ancient times and contains numerous ruins and arti...
Kanawha River (river, West Virginia, United States)
river formed at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, U.S., by the confluence of the New and Gauley rivers. It flows 97 miles (156 km) in a northwesterly direction to enter the Ohio River at Point Pleasant. It is navigable via dams and locks to Kanawha Falls, 30 miles (50 km) upstream from Charleston, which itself is located at th...
Kanazawa (Japan)
capital, Ishikawa ken (prefecture), Japan, on the Sai River. In the 16th century the city and the province of Kaga were given to the Maeda family, the richest daimyo family in Tokugawa times; Kanazawa remained under their jurisdiction for approximately 300 years. The walls, gates, and a few building...
Kanazawa Bunko Museum (museum, Yokohama, Japan)
...many warrior leaders developed a love of scholarship and a delight in waka poetry. One was Hōjō Sanetoki, who collected Japanese and Chinese books and founded a famous library, the Kanazawa Bunko, in the Shōmyō Temple (at what is now Yokohama). Reflecting the rise of the warrior class, military epics became popular. The most famous is the anonymously written......
kanban system (business)
A second Japanese technique, called kanban (“card”), also permits Japanese firms to schedule production and manage inventories more effectively. In the kanban system, cards or tickets are attached to batches, racks, or pallet loads of parts in the manufacturing process. When a batch is depleted in the assembly......
Kanchanaburi (Thailand)
town, western Thailand, 70 miles (110 km) northwest of Bangkok. The Khwae Noi (Kwai) River joins the Klong River near Kanchanaburi. Built in the 18th century as a defense against Burmese invaders, the walled town is the site of two paper factories. A cemetery there commemorates the Allied soldiers who died while constructing and operating the notorious ...
Kanchenjunga (mountain, Asia)
world’s third highest mountain, with an elevation of 28,169 feet (8,586 metres). It is situated in the eastern Himalayas on the border between Sikkim state, northeastern India, and eastern Nepal, 46 miles (74 km) north-northwest of Darjiling, Sikkim. The mountain is part of the Great Himalaya Rang...
Kanchenjunga I (mountain, Asia)
world’s third highest mountain, with an elevation of 28,169 feet (8,586 metres). It is situated in the eastern Himalayas on the border between Sikkim state, northeastern India, and eastern Nepal, 46 miles (74 km) north-northwest of Darjiling, Sikkim. The mountain is part of the Great Himalaya Rang...
kanchil (mammal)
any of several small chevrotains, or mouse deer, native to Southeast Asia. Formerly believed to be separate species, they are now generally thought to be varieties of the species Tragulus kanchil...
Kanchipuram (India)
city, northern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It is located on the Palar River and on the road and rail routes between Chennai (Madras) and Bangalore (Bengaluru). One of the most ancient cities of southern India, it traces its history to the 2nd century bce as an early Chola capital....
Kanchow (China)
city, southern Jiangxi sheng (province), southeastern China. It is located on the Gan River and is a natural route centre at the confluence of the various river systems that branch off from the north-south route to Nanchang, the provincial capital....
Kanchrapara (India)
city, southeastern West Bengal state, northeastern India. Lying just east of the Hugli (Hooghly) River within Halisahar municipality, it is part of the Kolkata (Calcutta) urban agglomeration. The city has one of the largest railway workshops in India. Jute milling is the major industry. A temple is dedicated to Krishna, an...
Kanci (India)
city, northern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It is located on the Palar River and on the road and rail routes between Chennai (Madras) and Bangalore (Bengaluru). One of the most ancient cities of southern India, it traces its history to the 2nd century bce as an early Chola capital....
Kanda Uda Pas Rata (Sri Lanka)
city in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka, at an elevation of 1,640 feet (500 metres). It lies on the Mahaweli River on the shore of an artificial lake that was constructed (1807) by the last Kandyan king, Sri Wickrama Rajasinha. Kanda, the word from which Kandy is derived, is a Sinhalese word meaning “hill...
kāṇḍa-vīṇā (musical instrument)
...has been either a low-caste occupation or an accomplishment to be savoured in the confines of the home. In India during the Vedic period there seem to have been stringed instruments (such as the kanda-vina) that were played only by women; and Chinese tradition has it that the long zither, or zheng, was invented by a woman. In the West, instrument makers seem usually to be men,......
Kandahār (province, Afghanistan)
The Kandahār region is a sparsely populated part of southern Afghanistan. The Durrānī Pashtun, who have formed the traditional nucleus of Afghanistan’s social and political elite, live in the area around the city of Kandahār itself, which is located in a fertile oasis near the Arghandāb River, and the Ghilzay inhabit the region between Kabul and Kandah...

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