Biography Category
(kä´´m kä´z ) (KEY) [Jap.,=divine wind], the typhoon that destroyed Kublai Khan’s fleet, foiling his invasion of Japan in 1281. In World War I...
(kä´k ´n ´m ´t n h ´t ´mä´r ) (KEY) , ?–710?, early Japanese lyric poet. He is the greatest poet represented in the Manyôshu [collection...
(k myän´y ts-pôdy l´sky ) (KEY) , Rus. Kamenets-Podolski, city (1989 pop. 102,000), Khmelnytskyy region, Ukraine. It is a rail terminus and has in...
(kär´k ) (KEY) , ancient Choaspes, river, c.350 mi (560 km) long, rising in the Zagros Mts., W Iran, and flowing S into the Khuzestan lowland, where...
(kä´n ) (KEY) , family or school of Japanese painters. Kano Masanobu, c.1434–c.1530, the forerunner of the school, was attached to the shogun Yosh...
(k näN´) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 48,596), Wakayama prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on the Kii Sound. It is a port, railway junction, and industrial cen...