All articles starting with K

Kokopelli

Kokopelli is the popular name of the Southwest's hump-backed flute player, a rock art figure (600–1600 CE) conflated by outsiders with the fluteless Hopi kachina Kookopölö and the Zuni Flute Player Paiyatuma, and transformed since the 1990s into a sanitized commercial icon.

Kokoretsi

Kokoretsi (Greek κοκορέτσι, Turkish kokoreç) is a grilled Balkan-Anatolian dish of lamb or goat intestines wrapped around seasoned offal; the Greek Easter version includes organ meats, the Turkish street version is chopped and served in bread.

Kokoro (AI model)

Kokoro is an open-weight text-to-speech model with 82 million parameters, released by pseudonymous developer hexgrad in December 2024, reaching number 1 in the TTS Spaces Arena despite rivals being far larger.

Kokoro (こゝろ)

Kokoro (こゝろ), a novel by Japanese writer Natsume Sōseki, was serialized in 1914. It follows an unnamed university student and the solitary older man he calls Sensei.

Kokoro Connect (ココロコネクト)

Kokoro Connect (ココロコネクト) is an 11-volume light novel series by Sadanatsu Anda, published in Famitsu Bunko 2010-2013, about five Cultural Research Club members hit by supernatural phenomena caused by Fusenkazura; adapted into a 2012 SILVER LINK. anime.

Kokoro Tanaka

Kokoro Tanaka (TANAKA Kokoro), born 2006 in Osaka, is a Japanese guard for the ENEOS Sunflowers, drafted 38th overall by the Golden State Valkyries in 2026, and a Japan senior national team player.

Kokoshnik (кокошник)

Kokoshnik (кокошник), the traditional Russian festive headdress of married women: a stiff-crested cap fully covering the hair, from Old Russian "kokosh" (hen), first recorded in 17th-century documents, richly decorated with pearls and goldwork.

Oct 21, 2026

Kokoua-Odzala Biosphere Reserve

Kokoua-Odzala Biosphere Reserve (Odzala-Kokoua), a UNESCO MAB site designated in 1977 in north-west Republic of the Congo around the 1935 national park; 1,294,900 ha of lowland rainforest, savanna, and bais, holding the largest known western lowland gorilla population.

Oct 3, 2026

Kokowääh

Kokowääh is a 2011 German comedy directed by Til Schweiger, who plays screenwriter Henry, suddenly caring for an eight-year-old girl claiming to be his daughter.

Oct 3, 2026

Kokowääh 2

Kokowääh 2 is a 2013 German comedy and the sequel to Til Schweiger's box-office hit Kokowääh, directed by Schweiger and released in Germany on 7 February 2013.

Kokstad

Kokstad, a town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, founded by Griqua leader Adam Kok III and capital of East Griqualand; main town of Greater Kokstad Municipality on the N2, population 51,561 (2011).

Koku (石)

The koku (石) is a traditional Japanese unit of volume, defined since 1891 as 180.39 liters, historically the amount of rice needed to feed one person for a year.

Kokubungaku

Kokubungaku (国文学) is the Japanese academic discipline devoted to Japanese literature, broadly including the study of the Japanese language; it dates to Ueda Kazutoshi's work of 1890.

Kokubunji establishment edict

The Kokubunji establishment edict (国分寺建立の詔) was Emperor Shōmu's 741 decree ordering every province of Japan to build a state monastery and nunnery, with Tōdaiji as head temple.

Kokubunji system

The Kokubunji system (国分寺) was a network of official state temples, one monastery and one nunnery per province of Japan, ordered by Emperor Shōmu in 741 and headed by Tōdaiji in Nara.

Kokuchūkai

Kokuchūkai (国柱会) is a Japanese lay Buddhist organization in the Nichiren tradition, founded in 1914 by Tanaka Chigaku and known for the nationalist ideology of Nichirenism.

Kokudaka system

The kokudaka system (石高制) was Japan's method of assessing land by standard rice yield in koku, established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the 1580s and 1590s.

Kokuga

The kokuga (国衙) was the office compound of a province in ancient and medieval Japan, from which the governor, the kokushi, directed administration, justice, military affairs, and religion.

Kokuga gunsei

Kokuga gunsei (国衙軍制) was Japan's provincial military system from the 10th to 12th century, in which provincial offices raised local warriors, forerunners of the samurai.

Kokugaku

Kokugaku (国学), or native Japanese studies, was Edo-period scholarship interpreting Japan's classical texts to recover a native Way; its Four Giants included Motoori Norinaga, and it fed the Meiji Restoration.

Kokugaku persecution of Hirata Atsutane's school

The kokugaku persecution of Hirata Atsutane's school was the Tokugawa shogunate's 1841 suppression of the nativist scholar and his Ibukinoya academy; he died in confinement in 1843.

Kokuho (国宝) (film)

Kokuho (国宝, "National Treasure") is Lee Sang-il's 2025 Japanese drama adapted from Shuichi Yoshida's novel, starring Ryo Yoshizawa as a yakuza's son who becomes a kabuki onnagata; it became Japan's highest-grossing live-action film and earned a 2026 Oscar makeup nomination.

Kokuji (国字)

Kokuji (国字), or wasei kanji, are kanji invented in Japan rather than China, such as 峠, 畑, 辻, and 働; mostly ideographic compounds with kun-readings only, attested from the Nara period, with 10 in the Jōyō list.

Kokujin

Kokujin (国人), also called kunishu (国衆), were locally based warrior lords in medieval Japan who entered vassal ties with shugo governors and formed leagues known as kokujin ikki.

Kokujin ikki

Kokujin ikki (国人一揆) were regional leagues of kokujin, the local resident lords of medieval Japan, active from the late 14th century through the 15th century.

Kokuryūkai

The Kokuryūkai (黒龍会), or Black Dragon Society, was a Japanese ultranationalist group founded by Uchida Ryōhei in Tokyo in 1901 to agitate for war with Russia.

Oct 15, 2026

Kokusai Denshin Denwa

Kokusai Denshin Denwa (KDD) was the Japanese company that held a legal monopoly on international telecommunications from 1953 until 1985, then merged into KDDI in 2000.

Kokushi

Kokushi (国司) were the provincial administrators of Japan's ritsuryō state, officials dispatched by the central court to govern each province, collect taxes, and administer justice locally.