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Akashi

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[ah-kah-shee] / ɑˈkɑ ʃi /

noun

  1. a city on W Honshu, in Japan.


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Sculptor Sula Bermudez-Silverman — who, like Akashi, often works with glass — has also been thinking about home in relation to the loss brought about by the L.A. fires.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

"We've demonstrated the actuator's capability to autonomously generate diverse dynamics, including rhythmic patterns and chaos," explains Nozomi Akashi of KyotoU's Graduate School of Informatics.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024

In a dim-lit gallery downstairs, Los Angeles-based artist Kelly Akashi bends and folds layers of earthenware into timeless, abstract shapes.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2023

“Mom said, instead of her, I would go to the shops today,” 3-year-old Yuka tells a shopkeeper in the coastal city of Akashi as she buys udon noodles for a family meal.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2022

At the Akashi agricultural experiment station, under the Directorship of Professor Ono, we saw some of the methods of fruit culture as practiced in Japan.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)

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