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Kiyohara no Takenori
Kiyohara no Takenori (清原武則) was a fushū chieftain of Dewa whose army destroyed the Abe clan in the Former Nine Years' War, becoming Chinjufu shōgun in 1063.
Kiyomi Kato (olympedia 52487)
Kiyomi Kato (加藤きよみ, born 1953, Ibaraki, Japan) is a Japanese volleyball middle-blocker, Olympedia athlete 52487, who won gold with Japan at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and the 1974 World Championships; distinct from the 1972 wrestler and swimmer of similar names.
Kiyomi Kato (olympedia 59031)
Kiyomi Kato (加藤喜代美), Japanese freestyle wrestler, Olympedia ID 59031; born 1948 in Asahikawa; won 1972 Munich Olympic gold at flyweight ≤52 kg and 1970 Asian Games silver. Not the volleyball player of the same name.
Kiyomizu-dera (清水寺)
Kiyomizu-dera (清水寺), also known as Kiyomizu Temple, is a Buddhist temple on Mt. Otowa in Kyoto, Japan, founded in 778 and famous for its nail-free wooden stage.
Kiyoo Wadati
Kiyoo Wadati (和達清夫, 1902–1995) was a Japanese seismologist who established that earthquakes occur at depths of several hundred kilometers, and whose name is attached to the Wadati–Benioff zone.
Kiyoshi Hikawa
Kiyoshi Hikawa (氷川きよし) is a Japanese enka and pop singer born in 1977 in Fukuoka, who debuted in 2000, won six Japan Cable Awards, and returned in 2024 after a hiatus.
Kiyoshi Itō
Kiyoshi Itō (伊藤清, 1915–2008) was a Japanese mathematician and Kyoto University professor who created Itô calculus, giving rigorous meaning to integration along random Brownian paths.
Kiyoshi Kurokawa (黒川清)
Kiyoshi Kurokawa (黒川清) is a Japanese nephrologist and health-policy scholar, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and GRIPS, who chaired the National Diet's Fukushima nuclear accident investigation commission.
Kiyoshi Kuromiya
Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943–2000), Japanese American Philadelphia activist; GLF-Philadelphia co-founder, Selma marcher, Black Panther convention delegate, and founder of the Critical Path AIDS Project.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (黒沢清)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (黒沢清), born 1955 in Kobe, is a Japanese director famed for Cure, Pulse, Tokyo Sonata and the Venice Silver Lion-winning Wife of a Spy; unrelated to Akira Kurosawa.
Kiyoshi Mizuuchi
Kiyoshi Mizuuchi is an NIH Distinguished Investigator who leads the Genetic Mechanisms Section at NIDDK, known for reconstituting bacteriophage Mu transposition in vitro and for discovering DNA gyrase.
Kiyoshi Nagai
Kiyoshi Nagai (1949–2019) was a Japanese structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who determined the first near-atomic cryo-EM structures of the spliceosome.
Kiyoshi Oka
Kiyoshi Oka (岡 潔; 1901–1978) was a Japanese mathematician who solved major problems in complex analysis between 1936 and 1953, including the Levi problem and the coherence of the structure sheaf.
Kiyoshi Saitō
Kiyoshi Saitō (斎藤清, 1907–1997) was a Japanese woodblock printmaker, a central figure in the sōsaku hanga creative print movement, known for his Winter in Aizu prints.
Kiyoshi Shiga
Kiyoshi Shiga (志賀潔) was a Japanese bacteriologist who identified the dysentery bacillus during Tokyo's deadly 1897 epidemic, honored in the names Shigella and Shiga toxin.
Kiyoshi Takeda
Kiyoshi Takeda (竹田潔) is a Japanese immunologist, professor at Osaka University and director of its Immunology Frontier Research Center, known for defining Toll-like receptor signaling pathways.
Kiyosu Conference
The Kiyosu Conference (清洲会議) was an 1582 council of Oda clan senior retainers at Kiyosu Castle that settled the succession after Oda Nobunaga's death, beginning Hideyoshi's rise.
Kiyotomi Kaneda
Kiyotomi Kaneda (金田 清臣) is a Japanese catalytic chemist and Osaka University professor emeritus known for hydroxyapatite-supported metal catalysts for green synthesis, winning the first Green Sustainable Chemistry Award in 2001.
Kiyoura Keigo
Kiyoura Keigo (清浦奎吾, 1850–1942) was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Japan in 1924; his non-party cabinet fell after the May 1924 election.
Kiyoyuki Suzuki
Kiyoyuki Suzuki (鈴木 清幸), born in 1952, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the voice recognition company Advanced Media in 1997 and leads it as chairman and president.
Kiyzassky Coal Mine
Kiyzassky Coal Mine (Кийзасский разрез) is a large surface coal mine near Chuvashka in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, shipping coal since 2014 and reaching 70 million tonnes by 2024.
Kizaemon Ido tea bowl
The Kizaemon Ido (喜左衛門井戸) is a 16th-century Korean ōido tea bowl, the only Korean tea bowl made a National Treasure, now kept at Kōhōan in Kyoto.
Kizakihama Surf Point
Kizakihama (木崎浜, Kisakihama) is a 2–3 km sand-bottom beach break in Miyazaki City, Japan, host of the 2019 ISA World Surfing Games and 2017 World Juniors, with the Solaseed Air Surfing Center.
Kizewamono
Kizewamono, also called masewamono, is a category of kabuki plays of the sewamono class known for realism, shaped by Tsuruya Nanboku IV and Kawatake Mokuami.
Kizhake Pogum Rail (கிழக்கே போகும் ரயில்)
Kizhake Pogum Rail (கிழக்கே போகும் ரயில்; Kizhakke Pogum Rail, Eastbound Train) is a 1978 Tamil romantic drama, Bharathiraja's second film, starring debutants Sudhakar and Raadhika with Ilaiyaraaja's music; it ran over 365 days and was remade as Toorpu Velle Railu and Saveray Wali Gaadi.
Kizhakke Pogum Rail (கிழக்கே போகும் ரயில்)
Kizhakke Pogum Rail (Eastbound Train), 1978 Tamil romantic drama, Bharathiraja's second film after 16 Vayathinile; debuts of Sudhakar and Radhika, Ilaiyaraaja music, released 10 August 1978, remade as Toorpu Velle Railu.
Kizhakku Cheemayile (கிழக்கு சீமையிலே)
Kizhakku Cheemayile (கிழக்கு சீமையிலே), also Kizhakku Seemayile, is a 1993 Tamil family drama directed by Bharathiraja, starring Vijayakumar, Radhika Sarathkumar, and Napoleon, with A. R. Rahman's folk-styled soundtrack and a brother-sister feud plot.
Kizhi Pogost
Kizhi Pogost (Кижский погост) is a walled enclosure of wooden churches on Kizhi Island in Lake Onega, Karelia, Russia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990.
Kiziba
Kiziba is one of several kingdoms founded by the Haya people in northwestern Tanzania's Kagera Region, on the western shore of Lake Victoria just south of the Uganda border.
Kizil Caves
Kizil Caves (克孜尔石窟), Buddhist rock-cut cave complex near Kucha, Xinjiang, China; earliest in China, about 339 caves from around 300 CE, famed for Indo-Iranian, Sasanian, and Gandharan murals with lapis lazuli blue.