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Kano River Irrigation Project
The Kano River Irrigation Project, also known as KRIP, is a large gravity irrigation scheme in Kano State, northern Nigeria, supplied with water from Tiga Dam on the Kano River.
Kanō Sanraku
Kanō Sanraku (狩野山楽, 1559–1635) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school who inherited the grand mural style of his teacher Kanō Eitoku and founded the Kyoto branch, the Kyō-Kano.
Kanō Sansetsu
Kanō Sansetsu (狩野山雪, 1589/1590–1651) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school who led the second generation of its Kyōto branch, known for bold decorative paintings like Old Plum.
Kanō school
The Kanō school (狩野派, Kanō-ha) was a hereditary lineage of professional Japanese painters that dominated Japanese painting for roughly 400 years, serving Japan's military governments.
Kano State
Kano State (Hausa: Jihar Kano) is Nigeria's most populous state, created 27 May 1967 from the Northern Region, capital Kano city, 44 LGAs, 20,131 km², commercial hub of northern Nigeria under Sharia law, governed by Abba Kabir Yusuf since 2023.
Kanō Takanobu
Kanō Takanobu (狩野孝信, 1571–1618) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school who led its Kyoto house and painted the oldest surviving Kenjō no shōji screens.
Kanō Tan'yū
Kanō Tan'yū (狩野探幽, 1602–1674), personal name Morinobu, was a Japanese painter of the early Edo period who served the Tokugawa shogunate as its official painter and founded the Kajibashi branch of the Kanō school.
Kanō Yasunobu
Kanō Yasunobu (狩野安信, 1613–1685) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school, youngest brother of Kanō Tan'yū, who founded the Nakabashi branch in Edo and served the Tokugawa shogunate.
Kano–Katsina wars
The Kano–Katsina wars were intermittent conflicts between the Hausa city-states of Kano and Katsina in what is now northern Nigeria, fought from the late fifteenth century into the seventeenth.
Kano, Kano State
Kano, capital of Kano State, Nigeria: ancient Hausa walled city and trans-Saharan trade hub, now northern Nigeria's largest city and commercial center, with 44 LGAs, about 15 million state residents, and a ₦10.87 trillion state GDP.
Kanobikos (river)
Kanobikos (Κανωβικὸν στόμα), the Canopic branch, was the westernmost ancient Nile Delta distributary, carrying Mediterranean trade to Naukratis and Canopus before silting up between 650 and 1000 CE.
Kanobo (crater on Rhea)
Kanobo is a 75.80-km-diameter impact crater on Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon, at 63.8°S, 37.4°W. Named for the Warrau/Warao creator god of Venezuela, IAU-approved June 17, 2010.
Kanojo no Tomodachi
Kanojo no Tomodachi (彼女の友達, My Girlfriend's Friend) is a romance manga by Jura, serialized on Kodansha's YanMaga Web since May 2021; seven volumes, 1 million copies reported, and a 2026 Quad anime adaptation.
Kanokon (かのこん)
Kanokon (かのこん) is a Japanese light novel series by Katsumi Nishino and illustrator Koin, published by MF Bunko J from 2005; a fox-spirit school harem comedy adapted into a 2008 Xebec anime, a 9-volume manga, an OVA, and a PS2 game.
Kanon Takao (高尾奏音)
Kanon Takao (高尾奏音, Takao Kanon) is a Japanese voice actress born in 2002, 2014 National Voice Actor Grand Prix winner, known as Toyokawa Sakiko in BanG Dream! Ave Mujica, Iris in KonoSuba, and Noel in Genshin Impact.
Kanonenfieber
Kanonenfieber is a German blackened death metal band formed in 2020 in Bamberg, led by anonymous musician Noise, themed entirely on World War I through authentic soldiers' documents; albums Menschenmühle and Die Urkatastrophe.
Kanoon (कानून)
Kanoon (कानून) is a 1960 Hindi courtroom drama directed and produced by B.R. Chopra, starring Rajendra Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Nanda, and Nana Palsikar. A songless thriller about a lawyer who witnesses his judge father-in-law commit murder, it won Filmfare Awards for Best Director and Best Supporting Actor.
Kanooru Subbamma Heggadathi
Kanuru Heggaditi (ಕಾನೂರು ಹೆಗ್ಗಡತಿ) is a Kannada epic novel of Malnad life by Kuvempu, first published in the mid-1930s and translated into English in 1999.
Kanovium/Conovium
Kanovium/Conovium (Canovium, Canubio), a Roman auxiliary fort at Caerhun on the River Conwy in North Wales, built c. AD 75-78, rebuilt in stone in the 2nd century, garrisoned by about 500 auxiliaries, with a vicus, bathhouse, and occupation into the 4th century.
Kanpaku appointment and the Toyotomi court position edicts
The Kanpaku appointment and the Toyotomi court position edicts (関白任官・豊臣賜姓) were the 1585 and 1586 court acts giving Toyotomi Hideyoshi legal authority to rule Japan.
Kanpō (官報) (Japanese government gazette)
Kanpō (官報) is the official gazette of Japan, first published in 1883, in which laws, cabinet orders, treaties, and public notices are promulgated; it became electronic-only in 2025.
Kanpur (कानपुर)
Kanpur (कानपुर), formerly Cawnpore, is a major industrial city on the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh, India, 80 km west of Lucknow. Known as the Manchester of the East for its textile and leather mills, it has IIT Kanpur, a metro inaugurated in 2021, and a district population of about 4.58 million.
Kanpyō no Chi
Kanpyō no Chi (寛平の治) refers to the politics of Emperor Uda's reign in early Heian Japan, 887 to 897, especially his direct rule without a regent after 891.
Kanrei
The kanrei (管領) was the senior deputy and chief administrator of the Muromachi shogunate, second only to the Ashikaga shogun and rotated among the Shiba, Hosokawa, and Hatakeyama families.
Kansai dialect (関西弁)
Kansai dialect (関西弁, Kansai-ben), also called Kansai hōgen, is the group of western Japanese dialects spoken around Osaka and Kyoto, marked by Keihan-type pitch accent, negative forms like -hen, descent from Edo-period kamigata-go, and high national prestige and spread.
Kansai Electric Power
Kansai Electric Power, also known as 関西電力株式会社, is one of Japan's ten regional electric utilities, incorporated in 1951 and serving about 12 million customers in the Kansai region.
Kansai International Airport (関西国際空港)
Kansai International Airport (関西国際空港, Kansai Kokusai Kūkō) is Japan's first 24-hour international airport, built on an artificial island off Osaka and opened in 1994 to relieve Osaka International Airport.
Kansai region (関西地方)
Kansai (関西地方), also called Kinki, is the west-central Japanese region centered on Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe, spanning six or seven prefectures depending on definition. Japan's second-largest economy (about 21.2 million people, $842 billion GDP), home of the ancient capitals Nara and Kyoto, and site of Expo 2025 at Yumeshima.
Kansas
Kansas, a central U.S. state admitted in 1861 after the Bleeding Kansas conflict, has about 2.98 million people, 87% agricultural land, and leads in wheat, sorghum, cattle, and Wichita aviation manufacturing.
Kansas (band)
Kansas: American classic and progressive rock band formed in Topeka, Kansas, in 1970 (briefly White Clover). Debut 1974 on Kirshner Records; hits Carry On Wayward Son and Dust in the Wind; over 30 million albums sold.