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Kyoto

American  
[kee-oh-toh, kyaw-taw] / kiˈoʊ toʊ, ˈkyɔ tɔ /
Or Kioto

noun

  1. a city on S Honshu, in central Japan: the capital of Japan a.d. 794–1868.


Kyoto British  
/ kɪˈəʊtəʊ, ˈkjəʊ- /

noun

  1. a city in central Japan, on S Honshu: the capital of Japan from 794 to 1868; cultural centre, with two universities (1875, 1897). Pop: 1 387 264 (2002 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Also on the schedule: the re-creation of two of Ono’s groundbreaking performance art works, including 1964’s iconic “Cut Piece,” which Ono originally performed in Kyoto and Tokyo, before staging its American debut at Carnegie Hall.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

The Kyoto University and Hiroshima University team now plans to extend its method to larger and more general multi photon entangled states.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

At a gallery in Kyoto, he spotted a terracotta sculpture of a Japanese warrior, about 2 feet tall.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Kyoto logged 52 days above the same temperature, compared with an average of 18.5 days.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

The stacks of Nahuatl manuscripts in Mexican archives depict the tlamatinime meeting to exchange ideas and gossip, as did the Vienna Circle and the French philosophes and the Taisho-period Kyoto school.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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