Kyoto
Americannoun
noun
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Nevertheless, she committed herself to painting and enrolled in a Kyoto art school in 1948 to study the traditional Nihonga style, but found its strictures provincial and stifling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Kusama studied Japanese painting in Kyoto, against her parents' wishes, and held her first solo exhibition in 1952 in her hometown of Matsumoto in central Japan.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Motivated by both needs, researchers at Kyoto University developed a new technique for visualizing this difficult-to-observe region.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
This quartet from Kyoto, Japan, put the Mosswood crowd in a stranglehold at the Field Stage and didn’t let up once during its entire set of math-rocky, manic, candy-colored fury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
A senior reactor engineering specialist at the Research Reactor Institute at Kyoto University, Hiroaki Koide, was interviewed by The New York Times that day.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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