Kamo
Appearance
The name Kamo may refer to the following:
Places
[edit]Japan
[edit](Note: kamo (鴨), is the common word for duck in Japanese, but the following names do not necessarily mean duck and are not necessarily written with that character.)
- Kamo, Niigata
- Kamo District, Gifu
- Kamo District, Hiroshima
- Kamo District, Shizuoka
- Kamo, Kyoto
- Kamo, Okayama
- Kamo, Shimane
- Kamo, Shizuoka
- Kamō, Kagoshima
- Kamo River in Kyoto (Japanese: 鴨川,賀茂川)
- A number of minor rivers (Japanese: 鴨川,加茂川) listed under Kamogawa (disambiguation)
- Kamo shrines, which may mean Kamigamo shrine or Shimogamo shrine in Kyoto
- Kamo, a place name within Higashimiyoshi, Tokushima known for Kamo's giant camphor tree [ja]
Rest of the world
[edit]- Gavar, Armenia - formerly Kamo
- Kamo, Armenia
- Kamo, Azerbaijan
- Kamo, New Zealand, a town in the Northland Region of New Zealand
- Kamo River (Russia)
People
[edit]- Kamo (Bolshevik) (1882–1922), real name of Simon Ter-Petrosian, Armenian-Georgian Bolshevik
- Kamo, nickname of former New Zealand sportsman Ian Jones (rugby union, born 1967)
- Kamo clan, surname of a Japanese clan (賀茂, 加茂, 鴨, 加毛)
- Kamo Wake-ikazuchi [ja],ancestral deity of the clan and Shinto deity of thunder
- Kamo no Chōmei (1155–1216), an author
- Kamo no Mabuchi (1697–1769), a poet
- Shu Kamo (born 1939), a football player and manager
- Kamo no Yasunori (917–977), an onmyōji
- first name (given name) of Serizawa Kamo (1826?–1863), commander of the Shinsengumi warriors
- Kamo (character), from the anime Doomed Megalopolis — the apprentice of Yasumasa Hirai
- Kamo (character) from the videogame The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Cuisine
[edit]- kamo in Japanese cuisine may refer to the poultry product of the wild duck, the domesticated duck, or very frequently the crossbred variety known as aigamo [ja]. It may appear on menu items such as kamonanban (hot soba).
- kamo is one of Eggplant#Cultivars, of a large round shape; it is one of the better known "Kyoto vegetables" or Kyoyasai.
Other
[edit]- Kamo (play) [ja], Noh play featuring the deity.