Kamo

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Kamo may refer to:

[edit] Places

• in Japan:
  • Kamo, Niigata
  • Kamo District, Gifu
  • Kamo District, Hiroshima
  • Kamo District, Shizuoka
  • Kamo, Kyoto
  • Kamo, Okayama
  • Kamo, Shimane
  • Kamo, Shizuoka
  • Kamō, Kagoshima
  • The Kamo River in Kyoto
• out of Japan:
  • Kamo, Armenia
  • Kamo, New Zealand, a town in the Northland Region of New Zealand

[edit] God

• Kamo Wake-ikazuchi, a Shinto thunder god,
  • Kamo (play), a Noh play featuring that god as the titular character
  • The Kamo Shrines in Kyoto that enshrine that god

[edit] People

• Kamo (Bolshevik), (1882-1922), real name Simon Ter-Petrossian, Georgian Bolshevik and one of Joseph Stalin's early henchmen.
• Shu Kamo (born 1939), a football player and manager
• Kamo no Chōmei (1155–1216), an author
• Kamo no Mabuchi (1697–1769), a poet
• Serizawa Kamo (1826?–1863), commander of the Shinsengumi warriors
• Kamo (character), from the anime Doomed Megalopolis — the apprentice of Yamumasa Hirai