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Katsimidi

Katsimidi (Greek: Κατσιμίδι) is an 849 m peak on Mount Parnitha in Attica, Greece, crowned by the remains of an ancient Athenian fort and watchtower controlling the Dekeleia pass.

Katsina

Katsina is a city in northwestern Nigeria and the capital of Katsina State, near the border with Niger. A historic Hausa kingdom and emirate, it was a major center of trade and Islamic scholarship.

Katsina State, northwestern Nigeria, created 23 September 1987 from Kaduna State, capital Katsina city, 34 LGAs, about 10.37 million people (2022 projection), agrarian economy, Nigeria's largest cotton producer, historic Hausa emirate.

Katsu Kaishū

Katsu Kaishū (勝海舟, 1823–1899), born Katsu Yoshikuni, was a Japanese naval officer and statesman who founded the Kobe Naval Training School and negotiated the bloodless surrender of Edo Castle in 1868.

Katsu-sando

Katsu-sando (カツサンド), also katsu sando, is a Japanese cutlet sandwich: panko-fried tonkatsu in shokupan milk bread with tonkatsu sauce and cabbage. Attributed to Isen in Ueno, Tokyo, in 1935, devised so geisha could eat without smearing lipstick; now a konbini staple and global restaurant item.

Katsudon (かつ丼)

Katsudon (かつ丼) is a Japanese rice-bowl dish of breaded, deep-fried pork cutlet over rice, most often simmered with onion in dashi broth and bound in beaten egg.

Sep 20, 2026

Katsuhiko Ariga

Katsuhiko Ariga (有賀克彦) is a Japanese supramolecular chemist and materials scientist. He is known for pioneering layer-by-layer assembly and nanoarchitectonics at NIMS and the University of Tokyo.

Katsuhiko Hayashi

Katsuhiko Hayashi (林克彦) is a Japanese developmental biologist and professor at Osaka University, a pioneer of in vitro gametogenesis who made eggs from male mouse cells in 2023.

Sep 20, 2026

Katsuhiko Mikoshiba

Katsuhiko Mikoshiba (御子柴克彦) is a Japanese neuroscientist known for identifying and cloning the IP3 receptor, the channel that releases calcium from the endoplasmic reticulum.

Sep 19, 2026

Katsuhisa Kinoshita

Katsuhisa Kinoshita (木下勝寿), born in 1968, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Kitanotatsujin Corporation in Osaka in 2002 and remains its president and majority shareholder, holding a 51.67% stake.

Oct 22, 2026

Katsukawa school

The Katsukawa school (勝川派, Katsukawa-ha) was a school of Edo-period ukiyo-e artists founded by Katsukawa Shunshō, which dominated late eighteenth-century actor prints with realistic likenesses and pioneered half-body portraits; Hokusai trained there.

Oct 22, 2026

Katsukawa Shunshō

Katsukawa Shunshō (勝川春章, 1726–1792) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of Edo who founded the Katsukawa school and transformed kabuki actor prints by depicting each actor's actual facial features.

Katsuki Ishihara

Katsuki Ishihara (石原勝記), born 10 March 1939 in Kumamoto, is a Japanese swimmer who won bronze in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1960 Rome Olympics, placed fourth in the 1964 freestyle relay, and set a 1957 medley relay world record.

Katsuko Kanesaka

Katsuko Kanesaka (金坂克子), Japanese volleyball setter born 1954 in Chiba, won gold in women's volleyball at the 1976 Montreal Olympics with Japan, beating the Soviet Union 3-0 in the final.

Katsuko Saruhashi (猿橋勝子)

Katsuko Saruhashi (猿橋勝子) was a Japanese geochemist who traced nuclear fallout in seawater and was the first woman to earn a chemistry PhD from the University of Tokyo.

Katsumi Kaneko

Katsumi Kaneko (金子克美) is a Japanese materials chemist and Distinguished Professor at Shinshu University since 2014, known for adsorption science, nanoporous carbons, and energy storage research.

Katsumi Matsumura

Katsumi Matsumura (松村勝美, born 1944, Osaka) is a Japanese volleyball player who won Olympic gold in 1964 and silver in 1972, plus World Championship golds in 1962 and 1967.

Katsumi Midorikawa

Katsumi Midorikawa (緑川克美) is a Japanese physicist at RIKEN whose 2002 high-output attosecond pulse laser became an international standard; he led the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics from 2018 to 2023.

Katsunori Kenjo

Katsunori Kenjo (剣城克則), Japanese freestyle swimmer; swam in the 4x200m freestyle relay world record team (8:18.7, Osaka, 26 July 1959) with Yamanaka, Fukui, and Fujimoto; record broken July 1960.

Katsuobushi (鰹節)

Katsuobushi (鰹節), dried fermented skipjack tuna, is made by boiling, smoke-drying, and mold-fermenting bonito into extremely hard blocks; its shavings supply 5'-inosinic acid umami for Japanese dashi soup stock.

Katsura Imperial Villa

Katsura Imperial Villa (桂離宮, Katsura Rikyu), a 17th-century imperial detached palace and stroll garden in Kyoto built by Princes Toshihito and Toshitada of the Hachijo-no-miya line, famed for sukiya architecture and modernist admirers.

Katsura Taro

Katsura Taro (桂太郎) was a Japanese army officer and statesman from the Chōshū domain who served three times as prime minister of Japan, from 1901 to 1913.

Katsura–Taft Agreement

The Katsura–Taft Agreement (桂・タフト協定) was a secret 1905 exchange in Tokyo between Japanese Prime Minister Katsura Tarō and US Secretary of War William Howard Taft.

Katsuragi Ace (カツラギエース)

Katsuragi Ace (カツラギエース), 1980–2000, Japanese dark bay racehorse and sire by Boysie Boy; won the 1984 Japan Cup (G1) and Takarazuka Kinen, first Japanese-trained Japan Cup winner, 22 starts 10 wins.

Katsuragi no Sotsuhiko

Katsuragi no Sotsuhiko (葛城襲津彦) was a powerful Yamato clan chief of the late 4th and early 5th centuries who led Japanese campaigns on the Korean peninsula.

Katsuragi no Tsubura

Katsuragi no Tsubura (葛城円), also called Tsubura no Ōomi, was a powerful 5th-century minister of the Yamato court who headed the Katsuragi clan and died sheltering Prince Mayowa.

Katsushi Ikeuchi

Katsushi Ikeuchi (池内克史) is a Japanese computer vision and robotics researcher, emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo, known for shape from shading and e-Heritage cultural digitization.

Katsushika-ku

Katsushika-ku (葛飾区) is a special ward at northeastern Tokyo, 34.80 km², population about 473,000, bordered by the Edogawa River, Saitama, and Chiba; known for Shibamata, low-lying flood-prone land, and the Tora-san film series.

Katsutoshi Nekoda

Katsutoshi Nekoda (猫田勝敏), 1944-1983, Japanese volleyball setter; four straight Olympics 1964-1976 winning bronze, silver, and 1972 Munich gold; invented the ceiling serve; Hall of Fame 2023.