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Kamza
Kamza (KS Kamza) was an Albanian football club from Kamëz near Tirana, founded 10 September 1936, twice promoted to the Kategoria Superiore (2011, 2016) and dissolved around 2019; distinct from the Russian club KamAZ.
KAN
KAN (木村和, Kimura Kan) was a Japanese singer-songwriter from Fukuoka whose 1990 single 'Ai wa Katsu' sold over 2 million copies; he died in 2023, aged 61.
Kan Chazan
Kan Chazan (菅茶山, 1748–1827) was a Japanese Confucian scholar and kanshi poet of the late Edo period who ran a private school in Bingo Province.
Kan Chen
Kan Chen is a scientist-turned-investor who serves as Partner and Co-Head of Healthcare at Qiming Venture Partners, known for biotech investments including Insilico Medicine, LaNova Medicines, and MediLink Therapeutics.
Kan extension
A Kan extension is a category theory construction that extends a functor along another functor in a universal way, introduced by Daniel Kan in 1958.
Kan'ei
Kan'ei (寛永) was a Japanese era name (nengō) used from 1624 to 1644 in the Edo period, spanning the sakoku seclusion edicts and the Kan'ei Tsūhō copper coin.
Kan'ei Great Famine
The Kan'ei Great Famine (寛永の大飢饉, Kan'ei no daikikin) was a famine that struck Japan from 1640 to 1643, the first nationwide famine of the Tokugawa era, killing up to 100,000 people.
Kan'ei land survey
The Kan'ei land survey (寛永検地, Kan'ei kenchi) was a general cadastral survey of Japanese domains in the Kan'ei era (1624–1644) of the Edo period, producing the Kan'ei kenchi-chō registers.
Kan'ei Persecution of Christians
The Kan'ei Persecution of Christians (寛永の大禁制) was the Tokugawa shogunate's suppression of Christianity under Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, through executions, forced apostasy, and the 1639 Portuguese ban.
Kan'ei reconstruction of Nikkō Tōshō-gū
The Kan'ei reconstruction (寛永の大造替, Kan'ei no daizōtai) was the 1634–1636 rebuilding of Nikkō Tōshō-gū, Tokugawa Ieyasu's mausoleum shrine, by shogun Iemitsu, creating the lavishly decorated complex that stands today.
Kan'ei Tsūhō
Kan'ei Tsūhō (寛永通宝) is the copper, brass, and iron cash coin minted by Japan's Tokugawa shogunate from 1636, ending reliance on Chinese imports and serving as the standard small coin through the Edo period.
Kan'i rank system
The Kan'i rank system (冠位制度) was Japan's first system of courtly ranks, beginning with the Twelve Cap Ranks established under Prince Shōtoku in 603 and abolished in 701.
Kana (かな)
Kana (かな, 仮名) is the collective name for hiragana and katakana, the two Japanese syllabaries of 46 signs each, derived from man'yōgana in the 9th century and now used with kanji, hiragana for grammar and katakana mainly for loanwords.
Kana Hanazawa (花澤 香菜)
Kana Hanazawa (花澤香菜), born 1989 in Tokyo, is a Japanese voice actress and singer under Office Osawa. Debuting in Last Exile (2003), known for Nadeko Sengoku, Akane Tsunemori, and Mitsuri Kanroji, she debuted as a singer in 2012 and played Budokan in 2015.
Kana Kaanum Kaalangal
Kana Kaanum Kaalangal (கனா காணும் காலங்கள்), Tamil school drama: 2006 Star Vijay serial (~500 episodes, Vijay Antony theme song) and 2022 Disney+ Hotstar web series reboot at Siragugal school, three seasons, 132/112/102 episodes.
Kana M. Sureshan
Kana M. Sureshan is a professor of chemistry at IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India, known for developing topochemical azide–alkyne cycloaddition, used to synthesize crystalline polymers and sugar polymers.
Kana Preface
The Kana Preface (仮名序, Kanajo) is the preface in kana at the head of the Kokin Wakashū, the 905 imperial waka anthology, attributed to Ki no Tsurayuki.
Kana prose
Kana prose (仮名文学, kana bungaku) is Japanese literature written in the kana syllabaries rather than classical Chinese, emerging in the Heian period and including waka anthologies, tales, and women's diaries.
Kana Ueda (植田佳奈)
Kana Ueda (植田佳奈), born 1980 in Osaka, is a Japanese voice actress and singer with I'm Enterprise, known for Tohsaka Rin in Fate/stay night, Hayate Yagami in Nanoha, and Miyano Saki in Saki.
Kana: Little Sister
Kana: Little Sister (加奈 ～いもうと～, Kana ~Imouto~) is a 1999 Japanese adult visual novel by D.O., translated by G-Collections in 2002. It follows Taka and his kidney-diseased sister through six endings across normal and intellectual routes.
Kanaa (கனா) (film)
Kanaa (கனா, "Dream") is a 2018 Tamil sports drama, the directorial debut of Arunraja Kamaraj, produced by Sivakarthikeyan. A farmer's daughter (Aishwarya Rajesh) becomes an international cricketer; first Tamil film centered on women's cricket, released 21 December 2018.
Kanaani cat
Kanaani (Canaan Cat): rare domestic cat breed from 1990s Israel, founded by Doris Pollatschek from Felis lybica and street-cat stock; WCF-recognized 2008, green-eyed, spotted, energetic, and nearly extinct.
Kanad Purkayastha
Kanad Purkayastha is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician, son of Assam BJP founder Kabindra Purkayastha, who was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Assam in 2025.
Kaṇāda
Kaṇāda (कणाद), also known as Ulūka and traditionally named Kaśyapa, is the traditional author of the Vaiśeṣika Sūtra, the foundational text of the realist, atomist Vaiśeṣika school of Hindu philosophy.
Kanadeva (Aryadeva; 迦那提婆)
Kanadeva (迦那提婆) is the name under which Aryadeva, the Indian Madhyamaka master and foremost disciple of Nagarjuna, appears as the fifteenth patriarch in Chan and Zen lineage lists.
Kanae Minato (湊かなえ)
Kanae Minato (湊かなえ), born 1973 in Hiroshima, is a Japanese mystery novelist whose debut Confessions (告白) won the 2009 Honya Taisho and was filmed in 2010; known for iya-misu, later works include Akeboshi and Okoku.
Kanaga Island
Kanaga Island, an uninhabited Andreanof island in Alaska's western Aleutians, hosts Kanaga Volcano, a 1,307 m andesitic stratovolcano within the collapsed Mount Kanaton caldera, erupting as recently as 1993-95 and 2023.
Kanaga mask
The Kanaga mask is a Dogon ritual mask from Mali, topped by a double-barred cross, worn by the male Awa society at the dama funerary rite.
Kanagaki Robun
Kanagaki Robun (仮名垣魯文, 1829–1894) was a Japanese gesaku writer and journalist known for comic works satirizing Westernized customs, including Aguranabe, and for founding popular small newspapers.
Kanaganahali Mound
Kanaganahalli Mound (Kanaganahalli), near Sannati on the Bhima river in Kalaburagi, Karnataka: an excavated early Buddhist stupa, the Adhālaka-mahācetiya, with Sātavāhana-era reliefs, Prakrit inscriptions, and a labeled Aśoka panel.