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5 unusual facts about Kamo


Emperor Sanjō

1013 (Chōwa 2, 12th month): Sanjō visited the Shrines of Kamo, and successive emperors would emulate his example visiting this shrine annually.

Kamo, New Zealand

Park Kyung, a rapper and composer from South Korean boy group Block B, attended Kamo High School.

Ross Ihaka, Pickering Award recipient and co-originator of the R programming language, attended Kamo High School.

Kote Tsintsadze

During the Russian Revolution of 1905, he was closely associated with the famous revolutionary fighter Kamo and served as head of the Bolshevik armed detachments that engaged in expropriation and robbery organised in the Manganese mine of Chiatura.

Masuji Ibuse

Ibuse was born in 1898 to a landowning family in the village of Kamo which is now part of Fukuyama, Hiroshima.


Gary Sherrer

Following his resignation, Sherrer went to work for KAMO, a Vinita, Oklahoma-based power provider for northeast Oklahoma and southeast Missouri.

Kamo no Chōmei

At the time, the Upper and Lower Kamo Shrines owned large amounts of property around the Kamo River, northeast of the Heian capital (Kyoto), holding great power and pretige among the aristocracy.

Makiko Kikuta

A native of Kamo, Niigata, she graduated from a high school in Kamo and studied in Heilongjiang University in China.


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