Hampi: The royal area: The Lotus Mahal, also known as Kamal Mahal or Chitrangini Mahal, is believed to have been built in the 16th century. It is a two-story pavilion with a dome shaped like a half-open lotus bud that served as a palace of leisure for the women of…

South Asian arts: Bangladesh: Ebrahim Khan wrote Kamal Pasha (1926), a play about the Turkish liberator, a symbol of hope and reawakening, and Anwar Pasha, about the downfall of Anwar (Enver), who could not cope with the new historical forces.

Lakshmi: Names and iconography: …include Sri or Shri (“radiance”), Padma or Kamala (she of the lotus), Vaishnavi or Narayani (beloved of Vishnu and Narayan [a name for Vishnu]), and Bhuvaneshvari (“ruler of the universe”). The Skanda Purana (between the 6th and 13th centuries ce) identifies her as Mahadevi (“supreme Goddess”), Mahamaya (“supreme illusion”), Mahalakshmi…

Balkrishna Doshi: …his own residence (1963), named Kamala House after his wife; his studio, Sangath (1980); and some of his most important projects. In 1956 Doshi founded his own practice, Vastushilpa, which he later renamed Vastushilpa Consultants. The firm worked on more than 100 projects throughout India, including a collaboration with Louis…

South Asian arts: Tamil: Quite different is the Kamalāmpāḷ Carittiram (“The Fatal Rumor”), by Rajam Aiyar, whom many judge to be the most important prose writer of 19th-century Tamil literature. In this work, the author created a series of characters that appear to have become classics; the story is a romance, yet life…

Tripura: Relief and drainage: the Dharmanagar, the Kailashahar, the Kamalpur, and the Khowai, all carved by northward-flowing rivers (the Juri, Manu and Deo, Dhalai, and Khowai, respectively). North-south-trending ranges separate the valleys. East of the Dharmanagar valley, the Jampai Tlang range rises to elevations between 2,000 and 3,000 feet (600 and 900 metres). Elevation…

kamanjā, stringed instrument of the fiddle family prominent in Arab and Persian art music. It is a spike fiddle; i.e., its small, round or cylindrical body appears skewered by the neck, which forms a “foot” that the instrument rests on when played. Measuring about 30 inches (76 cm) from neck to

Los Angeles Clippers: …forward Elton Brand and center Chris Kaman won 47 games and advanced to the second round of the playoffs, but they lost a seven-game series to the Phoenix Suns. Even this limited success was short-lived, and the team fell back to a last-place divisional finish two years later. The Clippers…

kamanjā, stringed instrument of the fiddle family prominent in Arab and Persian art music. It is a spike fiddle; i.e., its small, round or cylindrical body appears skewered by the neck, which forms a “foot” that the instrument rests on when played. Measuring about 30 inches (76 cm) from neck to

Tumbuka, a people who live on the lightly wooded plateau between the northwestern shore of Lake Nyasa (Lake Malaŵi) and the Luangwa River valley of eastern Zambia. They speak a Bantu language closely related to those of their immediate neighbours, the lakeside Tonga, the Chewa, and the Senga. The

kamanjā, stringed instrument of the fiddle family prominent in Arab and Persian art music. It is a spike fiddle; i.e., its small, round or cylindrical body appears skewered by the neck, which forms a “foot” that the instrument rests on when played. Measuring about 30 inches (76 cm) from neck to

kamanjā, stringed instrument of the fiddle family prominent in Arab and Persian art music. It is a spike fiddle; i.e., its small, round or cylindrical body appears skewered by the neck, which forms a “foot” that the instrument rests on when played. Measuring about 30 inches (76 cm) from neck to

Kumaraswami Kamaraj: …to be known as the Kamaraj Plan, which called for the voluntary resignations of high-level national and state officials in order to devote their efforts to rebuilding the Congress Party at the grassroots level following India’s disastrous border war with China.

Kumaraswami Kamaraj was an Indian independence activist and statesman who rose from humble beginnings to become a legislator in the Madras Presidency (an administrative unit of British India that encompassed much of southern India), chief minister (head of government) of the successor Madras state

Kamarān, island in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, to which it belongs. The largest member of an archipelago, it is 22 square miles (57 square km) in area. Its name, meaning “two moons” in Arabic, refers to a double reflection of the moon that can be seen there. Kamarān, consisting of coral

Kamáres ware, style of painted pottery associated with the palace culture that flourished on Crete during the Middle Minoan period (c. 2100–c. 1550 bc). Surviving examples include ridged cups, small, round spouted jars, and large storage jars (pithoi), on which combinations of abstract curvilinear

Kamarhati, city, east-central West Bengal state, northeastern India. It lies just east of the Hugli (Hooghly) River and is part of the Kolkata (Calcutta) urban agglomeration. The city’s major industries include jute and cotton milling, leather tanning, and the manufacture of rubber goods, cement,

Mikhail Glinka: Glinka’s orchestral composition Kamarinskaya (1848) was said by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to be the acorn from which the oak of later Russian symphonic music grew.

Kamarupa, ancient Indian state corresponding roughly to what is now the state of Assam, in northeastern India. This region had many rulers but, being protected by natural fortifications, maintained fairly consistent territorial boundaries. Kamarupa was ruled by at least three dynasties from about

Tibeto-Burman languages: The Kamarupan group: The Conspectus assigns the very numerous Tibeto-Burman languages of northeastern India and adjacent regions of Myanmar and Bangladesh to the Kuki-Chin-Naga, Abor-Miri-Dafla (what Shafer called Mirish), and Bodo-Garo (Shafer’s Barish) groups. Several other important languages of this area, including Karbi (Mikir), Meitei (Manipuri),…

Samoyedic languages: …Selkup and the practically extinct Kamas language. None of these languages was written before 1930, and they are currently used only occasionally for educational purposes in some elementary schools.

Africa: Pleistocene and Holocene developments: The Kamasian, or Second, Pluvial of the middle Pleistocene Epoch corresponds to the Mindel in Europe. A dry but not a desert climate is implied by the Kamasian-Kanjeran Interpluvial levels at Olduvai Gorge. The Kanjeran, or Third, Pluvial occurred during the middle Pleistocene and corresponds to…

Africa: Pleistocene and Holocene developments: …climate is implied by the Kamasian-Kanjeran Interpluvial levels at Olduvai Gorge. The Kanjeran, or Third, Pluvial occurred during the middle Pleistocene and corresponds to the Riss Pluvial in Europe.

Kamasutra, the oldest extant Indian prose treatise (sutra) on the subject of pleasure (kama)—sexual pleasure, desire, love, and the pleasures of good living generally conceived. Popularly known for its depiction of positions for sexual intercourse, the text is more broadly about the life of

Kamarupa, ancient Indian state corresponding roughly to what is now the state of Assam, in northeastern India. This region had many rulers but, being protected by natural fortifications, maintained fairly consistent territorial boundaries. Kamarupa was ruled by at least three dynasties from about

Jomo Kenyatta was an African statesman and nationalist, the first prime minister (1963–64) and then the first president (1964–78) of independent Kenya. Kenyatta was born as Kamau, son of Ngengi, at Ichaweri, southwest of Mount Kenya in the East African highlands. His father was a leader of a small

Jomo Kenyatta was an African statesman and nationalist, the first prime minister (1963–64) and then the first president (1964–78) of independent Kenya. Kenyatta was born as Kamau, son of Ngengi, at Ichaweri, southwest of Mount Kenya in the East African highlands. His father was a leader of a small

Kamba, Bantu-speaking people of Kenya. They are closely related to the neighbouring Kikuyu. Though primarily agriculturists, the Kamba keep considerable numbers of cattle, sheep, and goats. Their main staple crops are millet, sorghum, and corn (maize). Overcrowding and soil erosion in the Machakos

Kambalda, mining town, southern Western Australia. It lies 37 miles (60 km) south of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. Gold was mined in Kambalda from 1896 to 1906, and a settlement was made there in 1897. The gold gave out in the early 20th century, however, and the town was deserted. The area’s fortunes

Gudmundur Kamban was one of Iceland’s most important 20th-century dramatists and novelists. His work, which is anchored in a deep historical awareness, frequently criticized modern Western values and spoke in favour of compassion and understanding. He wrote his works in both the Icelandic and

Rwanda genocide of 1994: ICTR: …May former Rwandan prime minister Jean Kambanda pleaded guilty to six charges of genocide and was sentenced to life imprisonment on September 4. In October 2000 Kambanda tried to revoke his guilty plea, but his motion was rejected by the ICTR.

African dance: Division between the sexes: …usually distinct, as with the Kambari of Nigeria: men and women dance to the same musical rhythm, but they hold different postures, with the women singing and using a simpler foot pattern than the men.

the MC5: …17, 1991, Royal Oak, Michigan) Wayne Kramer (original name Wayne Kambes; born April 30, 1948, Detroit—died February 2, 2024, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) Fred (“Sonic”) Smith (born August 14, 1948, near Harts Creek, West Virginia, U.S.—died November 4, 1994, Detroit) Dennis Thompson (original

East Timor: …the small nearby islands of Atauro (Kambing) and Jaco, and the enclave of Ambeno, including the town of Pante Makasar, on the northwestern coast of Timor. Dili is the capital and largest city.

India: Location: Kamboja adjoined Gandhara in the northwest. Originally regarded as a land of Aryan speakers, Kamboja soon lost its important status, ostensibly because its people did not follow the sacred Brahminic rites—a situation that was to occur extensively in the north as the result of the…

Oceanic art and architecture: The Sepik River regions: The Kambot tribe of the Keram River, on the other hand, combined sculpture and painting in complex, ambitious designs to decorate their ceremonial houses. The houses’ long, horizontal gables were filled with painted compositions of an ancestral hero with his wives and animals. Paintings also adorned…

Sierra Leone: Relief: …metamorphic rocks known as the Kambui Schists. Rising above the plateau are a number of mountain masses; in the northeast the Loma Mountains are crowned by Mount Loma Mansa (Mount Bintimani) at 6,391 feet (1,948 metres), and the Tingi Mountains rise to 6,080 feet (1,853 metres) at Sankanbiriwa Peak. Numerous…

Cambodia: Foundation of the kingdom: …what came to be called Kambuja-desa, a confident, self-aware kingdom that superseded and came to control a range of smaller states. He was Cambodia’s first nationally oriented king. It is not known whether smaller states were forced into submission or joined of their own volition. Despite the grandeur of the…

Khmer literature: French influence: …on palm-leaf manuscripts; its journal, Kambujasuriya, played a major role in publishing works of classical literature, religious works, folktales, and, later, novels; it also served as a forum for serious scholarship in Cambodia.

Cambyses I was a ruler of Anshan c. 600–559 bc. Cambyses was the son of Cyrus I and succeeded his father in Anshan (northwest of Susa in Elam) as a vassal of King Astyages of Media. According to the 5th-century-bc Greek historian Herodotus, Cambyses married a daughter of Astyages, by whom he became

Cambyses II was an Achaemenid king of Persia (reigned 529–522 bce), who conquered Egypt in 525. He was the eldest son of King Cyrus II the Great by Cassandane, daughter of a fellow Achaemenid. During his father’s lifetime, Cambyses was in charge of Babylonian affairs. In 538, he performed the

Battles of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift: …of the Zulu at the Battle of Kambula (Khambula) on March 29. On April 2 a British column under Chelmsford’s command inflicted a heavy defeat on the Zulu at Gingindlovu, where more than 1,000 Zulu were killed. Chelmsford’s troops then moved on Cetshwayo’s royal villages at Ulundi, where on July…

Kamchatka, kray (territory), far eastern Russia. The territory was created in 2007 when the Kamchatka oblast (region) was merged with the Koryak autonomous okrug (district). The territory includes the entire Kamchatka Peninsula and the southern end of the Koryak Mountains. The administrative

Kamchatka Peninsula, peninsula in far eastern Russia, lying between the Sea of Okhotsk on the west and the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea on the east. It is about 750 miles (1,200 km) long north-south and about 300 miles (480 km) across at its widest; its area is approximately 140,000 square miles

Kamchatka River, river, far eastern Russia. It rises in the Sredinny (“Central”) Range of the Kamchatka Peninsula and flows north and east about 478 miles (758 km) past Milkovo, head of shallow-draught navigation, to the Bering Sea. The river freezes from November until May, except in places where

Itelmen, an Indigenous people of the southern Kamchatka Peninsula, far eastern Russia. In 2020 there were about 2,500 ethnic Itelmens. Much reduced by conquest and epidemics, they have been largely Russianized since the 18th century. In the 1926–27 census of subpolar regions, Soviet officials began

Paleo-Siberian languages: Yeniseian, Luorawetlan, and Nivkh: …strongly divergent but probably related Itelmen (or Kamchadal), with a bare remnant of 500 speakers on the central west coast of Kamchatka, (4) Aliutor, perhaps a Koryak dialect, with about 2,000 speakers, and (5) Kerek, with about 10 speakers.

Kamchatka, kray (territory), far eastern Russia. The territory was created in 2007 when the Kamchatka oblast (region) was merged with the Koryak autonomous okrug (district). The territory includes the entire Kamchatka Peninsula and the southern end of the Koryak Mountains. The administrative

Pacific Ocean: Surface currents: The southward extension of the Kamchatka Current forms the cold Oya Current, which flows to the east of the Japanese island of Honshu to meet the warm Kuroshio waters in the vicinity of 36° N. The cold, southeast-flowing California Current forms the eastern segment of the returning branch of the…

Kamchatka Peninsula, peninsula in far eastern Russia, lying between the Sea of Okhotsk on the west and the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea on the east. It is about 750 miles (1,200 km) long north-south and about 300 miles (480 km) across at its widest; its area is approximately 140,000 square miles

Kamchatka River, river, far eastern Russia. It rises in the Sredinny (“Central”) Range of the Kamchatka Peninsula and flows north and east about 478 miles (758 km) past Milkovo, head of shallow-draught navigation, to the Bering Sea. The river freezes from November until May, except in places where

Asia: East Asia: …of the Ryukyu-Korean, Honshu-Sakhalin, and Kuril-Kamchatka mountain-island arcs. Dating from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras, those arcs have complex knots at their junctions, represented by the topography of the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Hokkaido. The mountains are of low or moderate height and are formed of folded and faulted…

kame, moundlike hill of poorly sorted drift, mostly sand and gravel, deposited at or near the terminus of a glacier. A kame may be produced either as a delta of a meltwater stream or as an accumulation of debris let down onto the ground surface by the melting glacier. A group of closely associated

kame: …associated kames is called a kame field, or kame complex, and may be interspersed with kettles or kettle lakes. A kame terrace is produced when a meltwater stream deposits its sediments between the ice mass and the valley wall. In small areas, kames may form the terminal moraine.

kame: …associated kames is called a kame field, or kame complex, and may be interspersed with kettles or kettle lakes. A kame terrace is produced when a meltwater stream deposits its sediments between the ice mass and the valley wall. In small areas, kames may form the terminal moraine.

glacial landform: Glaciofluvial deposits: …geologists sometimes employ the term kame moraine to describe deposits of stratified drift laid down at an ice margin in the arcuate shape of a moraine. Some researchers, however, object to the use of the term moraine in this context because the deposit is not composed of till.

glacial landform: Glaciofluvial deposits: Kame terraces form in a similar manner but between the lateral margin of a glacier and the valley wall. Glacial geologists sometimes employ the term kame moraine to describe deposits of stratified drift laid down at an ice margin in the arcuate shape of a…

Kamehameha I was a Hawaiian conqueror and king who, by 1810, had united all the Hawaiian islands and founded the Kamehameha dynasty, the most-enduring and best-documented line of Hawaiian rulers. First named Paiea, meaning “Hard-Shelled Crab,” the future sovereign was the son of Keoua, a high

Kamehameha II was the king of Hawaii from 1819 to 1824, son of Kamehameha I. In 1820 he admitted the first company of missionaries (from New England), who, within two years, had learned the language, reduced it to writing, and printed the first textbook. Kamehameha resisted conversion to

Kamehameha III was the king of Hawaii from 1825 to 1854, and the brother of Kamehameha II. Only 10 years of age when he succeeded to the throne, he was initially under the regency of Kamehameha I’s favourite wife, Kaahumanu, who had been regent ever since Kamehameha II had visited England in 1824

Kamehameha IV was a Hawaiian sovereign known for his firm opposition to the annexation of his kingdom by the United States. As Kamehameha IV, he strove to curb the political power of the American Protestant missionaries in the Hawaiian Islands. Dedicated to protecting his people, who were rapidly

Kamehameha I was a Hawaiian conqueror and king who, by 1810, had united all the Hawaiian islands and founded the Kamehameha dynasty, the most-enduring and best-documented line of Hawaiian rulers. First named Paiea, meaning “Hard-Shelled Crab,” the future sovereign was the son of Keoua, a high

Kamehameha V was the king of Hawaii from 1863 to 1872. Succeeding to the throne on the death of his younger brother, Kamehameha IV, he immediately revealed his intention to rule with a strong hand, refusing at his inauguration to take the oath to maintain the existing, comparatively liberal

graphic design: Postwar graphic design in Japan: …the war was led by Kamekura Yusaku, whose importance to the emerging graphic-design community led to the affectionate nickname “Boss.” Kamekura’s poster proposal (1967) for the Japanese World Expo ’70 in Ōsaka, for example, displays his ability to combine 20th-century Modernist formal experiments with a traditional Japanese sense of harmony.

Kamen-na-Obi, city and administrative centre of Kamensky rayon (sector), Altay kray (territory), south-central Russia. A port on the Ob River, it was founded in 1670 and designated an urban settlement in 1915 and became a city in 1925. Its economic base is the food-processing industry; other

Mishima Yukio: …novel, Kamen no kokuhaku (1949; Confessions of a Mask), is a partly autobiographical work that describes with exceptional stylistic brilliance a homosexual who must mask his sexual preferences from the society around him. The novel gained Mishima immediate acclaim, and he began to devote his full energies to writing.

Dean Kamen is an American inventor who created the Segway Human Transporter (Segway HT; later called the Segway Personal Transporter [Segway PT]), a motorized device that allowed passengers to travel at up to 20 km (12.5 miles) per hour. In 1971, while still an undergraduate at Worcester

Evenk: …5,581 feet (1,701 metres) in Mount Kamen. Apart from higher areas with tundra vegetation, the area is covered by coniferous forest of larch. Permafrost underlies the poor soils. The climate is severe, with long, cold winters. This huge area, which is larger than the U.S. state of Texas, has only…

Kamen-na-Obi, city and administrative centre of Kamensky rayon (sector), Altay kray (territory), south-central Russia. A port on the Ob River, it was founded in 1670 and designated an urban settlement in 1915 and became a city in 1925. Its economic base is the food-processing industry; other

Kam’yanets-Podilskyy, city, western Ukraine, on the Smotrych River. The city is one of the largest and oldest in the Dniester River basin, dating to at least the 11th century. Lying at a superbly defensible site where the river forms a loop, it was long a frontier fortress and centre of the Podolia

Lev Kamenev was an Old Bolshevik and prominent member of the Communist Party and Soviet government during the decade after the October Revolution in Russia (1917). He became an opponent of Joseph Stalin and was executed during the Great Purge. (Read Leon Trotsky’s 1926 Britannica essay on Lenin.)

Lev Kamenev was an Old Bolshevik and prominent member of the Communist Party and Soviet government during the decade after the October Revolution in Russia (1917). He became an opponent of Joseph Stalin and was executed during the Great Purge. (Read Leon Trotsky’s 1926 Britannica essay on Lenin.)

history of Central Asia: Early western peoples: The vast fortified settlement of Kamenka on the Dnieper River, settled since the end of the 5th century bce, became the center of the Scythian kingdom ruled by Ateas, who lost his life in a battle against Philip II of Macedon in 339 bce.

The Stone Guest, blank verse drama by Aleksandr Pushkin, published posthumously in 1839 as Kamenny gost. The work is one of four acclaimed “little tragedies” completed by Pushkin in the fall of 1830. A highly intelligent poet and chronic seducer who thinks himself superior to almost everyone, Don

Dorothy Kamenshek was an American athlete, one of the stars of women’s professional baseball, who was considered a superior player at first base and at bat. Kamenshek showed promise as an outfielder with a local softball league by the time she was 17. A scout for the newly created All-American

Dorothy Kamenshek was an American athlete, one of the stars of women’s professional baseball, who was considered a superior player at first base and at bat. Kamenshek showed promise as an outfielder with a local softball league by the time she was 17. A scout for the newly created All-American

Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, city, Rostov oblast (region), southwestern Russia, on the Seversky (“Northern”) Donets River. Founded in 1686 as a Cossack settlement, it became a city in 1927. Once a major coal-mining centre of the eastern Donets Basin, it primarily manufactures agricultural and mining

Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, city, Rostov oblast (region), southwestern Russia, on the Seversky (“Northern”) Donets River. Founded in 1686 as a Cossack settlement, it became a city in 1927. Once a major coal-mining centre of the eastern Donets Basin, it primarily manufactures agricultural and mining

Kamensk-Uralsky, city, Sverdlovsk oblast (region), western Russia, at the confluence of the Kamenka and Iset rivers. The first state iron foundry in the Urals, Kamensky Zavod, was established there in 1700–01. The modern city specializes in the production of aluminum and aluminum castings and

Kamensk-Uralsky, city, Sverdlovsk oblast (region), western Russia, at the confluence of the Kamenka and Iset rivers. The first state iron foundry in the Urals, Kamensky Zavod, was established there in 1700–01. The modern city specializes in the production of aluminum and aluminum castings and

Dniprodzerzhynsk, city, southern Ukraine, along the Dnieper River. Founded about 1750 as the Cossack settlement of Kamenskoye (Kamyanske), the town grew after 1889 with the developing metallurgical industry. The Soviets renamed it Dneprodzerzhinsk in 1936 to honour the former Soviet secret police

Lavender Scare: Resistance and aftermath: In 1957 astronomer Frank Kameny was fired from his job with the Army Map Service after his employers learned that he had been arrested a year prior for consensual sexual contact with a man. Kameny appealed his dismissal multiple times and even attempted to bring the case before…

Moscow: The 18th and 19th centuries: …miles (40 km) long, the Kamer-Kollezhsky barrier, at whose 16 gates customs tolls were collected; its line is traced today by a number of streets called val (“rampart”) and by place-names such as Kaluga Zastava (Customs Gate). Industry flourished, and by the end of the 18th century there were about…

Odessa: …replaced by an organization called Kameradenwerke (“Comrade Workshop”), which over the following decades sought to aid former Nazis overseas in avoiding capture and maintaining concealment. Whereas Odessa’s work was centred in Germany, Kameradenwerke’s operations were conducted in foreign lands, especially where governments were sympathetic to ultra-right-wing causes, as in Argentina,…

G.W. Pabst: …Threepenny Opera), and Kameradschaft (1931; Comradeship), in which the virtues of international cooperation are extolled via a mine disaster met by the combined rescue efforts of French and German workers.

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Congo under Joseph Kabila: …opposition leader with broad support, Vital Kamerhe, did the same.

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1913 for his work on low-temperature physics and his production of liquid helium. He discovered superconductivity, the almost total lack of electrical resistance in certain materials when cooled to a temperature near

Kamerny Theatre, small, intimate theatre founded in Moscow in 1914 by the Russian director Aleksandr Tairov (q.v.) to support his experimental synthetic theatre that incorporated all theatrical arts—ballet, opera, music, mime, and drama—as an alternative to the naturalistic presentations of

Kamerny Theatre, small, intimate theatre founded in Moscow in 1914 by the Russian director Aleksandr Tairov (q.v.) to support his experimental synthetic theatre that incorporated all theatrical arts—ballet, opera, music, mime, and drama—as an alternative to the naturalistic presentations of

Cameroon, country lying at the junction of western and central Africa. Its ethnically diverse population is among the most urban in western Africa. The capital is Yaoundé, located in the south-central part of the country. The country’s name is derived from Rio dos Camarões (“River of Prawns”)—the

Cameroon, country lying at the junction of western and central Africa. Its ethnically diverse population is among the most urban in western Africa. The capital is Yaoundé, located in the south-central part of the country. The country’s name is derived from Rio dos Camarões (“River of Prawns”)—the

Henry Home, Lord Kames was a lawyer, agriculturalist, and philosopher. Kames was called to the bar in 1724 and was appointed a judge in the Court of Session in 1752. He became a lord of justiciary in 1763. He is best known for his Elements of Criticism, 3 vol. (1762), a work remarkable in the

Kamet, mountain peak of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand state, northern India, near the border with the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Part of the Zanskar Range, it is 25,446 feet (7,756 meters) high and was first climbed in

Kamet, mountain peak of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand state, northern India, near the border with the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Part of the Zanskar Range, it is 25,446 feet (7,756 meters) high and was first climbed in

kami, object of worship in Shintō and other indigenous religions of Japan. The term kami is often translated as “god,” “lord,” or “deity,” but it also includes other forces of nature, both good and evil, which, because of their superiority or divinity, become objects of reverence and respect. The

Tsushima: …principally of two rocky islands, Kami and Shimo, which are separated at one point by a narrow channel. Kami has an area of 98 square miles (255 square km), while Shimo has an area of 174 square miles (450 square km).

Noh theatre: The first type, the kami (“god”) play, involves a sacred story of a Shintō shrine; the second, shura mono (“fighting play”), centres on warriors; the third, katsura mono (“wig play”), has a female protagonist; the fourth type, varied in content, includes the gendai mono (“present-day play”), in which the…

Mount Everest: Extraordinary feats: Kami Rita, also a Sherpa, surpassed them in 2017, and in 2019 he reached the summit for a 24th time—just three days after his 23rd ascent; he summited again in 2021.

Mount Everest: Extraordinary feats: Kami Rita, also a Sherpa, surpassed them in 2017, and in 2019 he reached the summit for a 24th time—just three days after his 23rd ascent; he summited again in 2021.

musubi: …the gods of the heaven; Kami-musubi no Kami (“Sacred Musubi Deity”), related to the gods of the earth; and Ame no Minaka-nushi no Kami (“Heavenly Centre-Ruling Deity”). Some Shintō scholars hold that all Shintō deities are manifestations of Ame no Minaka-nushi no Kami.