All articles starting with K

Kaidan-shū

Kaidan-shū (怪談集) is a Japanese book collection of kaidan, written tales of the strange and supernatural, a genre that took shape in the Edo period.

Kaidara

Kaidara (also spelled Kaïdara or Kaydara) is a Fulani initiatory narrative in 2,460 free verses, collected in 1968 by Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ and published in 1969.

Kaidi Ecological and Environmental Technology

Kaidi Ecological and Environmental Technology was a Wuhan-based biomass power developer, once among China's largest with 44 plants, that defaulted in 2018 and was delisted in 2020.

Kaidiashi (Kaadas)

Kaadas (凯迪仕), formally Shenzhen Kaadas Intelligent Technology, is a Chinese smart-lock maker founded in Shenzhen in 2009 by Su Zhiyong, a lock-industry veteran since 1986.

Kaidōki

Kaidōki (海道記) is an anonymous Japanese travel diary, completed around 1223, recording an elderly monk's journey from Kyoto down the Tōkaidō road to Kamakura and back.

Kaidu

Kaidu (海都) was a Mongol imperial prince who rebelled against Kublai Khan of the Yuan dynasty, fighting its armies on the northern frontier in a struggle for the throne itself.

Kaidu River

The Kaidu River (开都河) is a 530 km inland river in Xinjiang, northwest China, rising in the Tianshan and supplying about 95 percent of Bosten Lake's water.

Kaidu–Kublai war

The Kaidu–Kublai war was a decades-long Mongol civil war between Kublai Khan and Kaidu, a fierce opponent of Kublai's 1260 claim to the throne, ending in peace in 1304.

Kaieteur Falls, on the Potaro River in Guyana's Kaieteur National Park, drops 226 m (741 ft) in a single plunge with up to 663 m³/s flow, the world's largest single-drop waterfall by volume; discovered in 1870 by Charles Barrington Brown.

Kaifeng (开封)

Kaifeng (开封), historically Bianliang, is a city in eastern Henan, China, near the Yellow River, and was the capital of the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127).

Sep 25, 2026

Kaifeng Imperial University Law and Medicine Schools

The Kaifeng Imperial University Law and Medicine Schools (国子监律学、医学) were the specialized law and medical schools of the Song Directorate of Education in the Northern Song capital.

Kaifeng Jews

Kaifeng Jews: a Judeo-Persian Jewish community in Kaifeng, Henan, capital of the Northern Song; synagogue built 1163, Ming surnames, assimilated after 19th-century floods, under 1,000 descendants remain today.

Kaifeng power station

Kaifeng power station (国电投开封发电厂) is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Shunhe District, Kaifeng, Henan, China, operating two 630 MW supercritical units under State Power Investment Corporation.

Kaifeng Prefecture

Kaifeng Prefecture (開封府) was the capital prefecture of the Northern Song dynasty, administering the capital city Dongjing and its counties, and headed by officials including Bao Zheng.

Kaifi Azmi (کیفی اعظمی)

Kaifi Azmi (کیفی اعظمی), born Sayed Athar Hussain Rizvi, was an Indian Urdu poet and Hindi film lyricist of the Progressive Writers' Movement; films Kaagaz Ke Phool, Haqeeqat, Heer Raanjha; Sahitya Akademi Award 1975; died 10 May 2002 in Mumbai.

Sep 19, 2026

Kaifi Khalil

Kaifi Khalil (کیفی خلیل) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter and composer from Lyari, Karachi, who sings in Balochi and Urdu and broke out in 2022 with "Kana Yaari".

Kaifūsō

Kaifūsō (懐風藻) is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese-style poetry (kanshi) by Japanese poets, compiled in 751 during the Nara period, collecting about 120 poems by 64 court authors.

Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant

Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant, also known as Kaiga Generating Station, is an Indian nuclear power station in Karnataka with four 220 MWe pressurized heavy water reactors.

Kaihō Yūshō

Kaihō Yūshō (海北友松, 1533–1615) was a Japanese painter of the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods, known for forceful ink painting and reduced-brush figures, who founded the Kaihō school.

Kaihuang calendar

The Kaihuang calendar (开皇历) was the official calendar of the early Sui dynasty, compiled under the Daoist Zhang Bin and promulgated by Emperor Wen in 584.

Kaihuang Code

The Kaihuang Code (开皇律) was the penal code of China's Sui dynasty, promulgated in 583; it simplified earlier laws and became the direct model for the Tang Code.

Sep 24, 2026

Kaihuang music debate

The Kaihuang music debate (开皇乐议) was a Sui dynasty court controversy over music and pitch theory lasting thirteen years, ending when Emperor Wen adopted He Tuoshan's proposal.

Sep 25, 2026

Kaihuang wuzhu coin

The Kaihuang wuzhu (开皇五铢) was a copper coin of the Sui dynasty, the last wuzhu coin issued in China, ending monetary disorder dating to the Three Kingdoms period.

Oct 21, 2026

Kaija Mustonen

Kaija Mustonen (born 1941, Helsinki) is a Finnish speed skater, the most successful Finnish woman in the sport, with four Olympic medals: 1,500 m gold at Grenoble 1968, silvers at 1,500 m 1964 and 3,000 m 1968, and 1,000 m bronze 1964.

Kaiji (manga)

Kaiji (賭博黙示録カイジ, Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji) is Nobuyuki Fukumoto's gambling manga, serialized in Weekly Young Magazine 1996–1999, 13 volumes, about debtor Ito Kaiji; sequels, 30-million-copy series, anime and films.

Kaiji Tang

Kaiji Tang (Kaiji Von Tang) is a Chinese-born American voice actor in Los Angeles, born 1984 in Shanghai, known for Ichiban Kasuga in Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Satoru Gojo in Jujutsu Kaisen, Detective Pikachu, and Gyro Zeppeli in JoJo's Steel Ball Run.

Kaijiang Story (Uncle Kai Storytelling)

Kaijiang Story (凯叔讲故事), also known as Uncle Kai Storytelling, is a Chinese children's audio content company founded in 2013 by former CCTV host Wang Kai.

Kaijin Fugeki

Kaijin Fugeki: Kindled Spirits (灰仭巫覡) is a dark fantasy manga by Oh!Great (Ito Ōgure), serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since May 2024, in which Jin and Gao dance to invoke gods against calamities called Nights; English via K Manga and Vertical.

Kaijing Technology (凯京科技)

Kaijing Technology (凯京科技), formally Shanghai Kaijing Xinda Technology Group, is a Chinese logistics-fintech company founded in Shanghai in 2015 serving small logistics firms and truck drivers.