Kamo

The name Kamo may refer to the following:

Places

Japan

(Note: kamo (鴨), is the common word for duck in Japanese, but the following names do not necessarily mean duck and are not necessarily written with that character.)

• Kamo, Niigata
• Kamo District, Gifu
• Kamo District, Hiroshima
• Kamo District, Shizuoka
• Kamo, Kyoto
• Kamo, Okayama
• Kamo, Shimane
• Kamo, Shizuoka
• Kamō, Kagoshima
• Kamo River in Kyoto (Japanese: 鴨川,賀茂川)
• A number of minor rivers (Japanese: 鴨川,加茂川) listed under Kamogawa (disambiguation)
• Kamo shrines, which may mean Kamigamo shrine or Shimogamo shrine in Kyoto
• Kamo, a place name within Higashimiyoshi, Tokushima known for Kamo's giant camphor tree ^[ja]

Rest of the world

• Gavar, Armenia - formerly Kamo
• Kamo, Armenia
• Kamo, Azerbaijan
• Kamo, New Zealand, a town in the Northland Region of New Zealand
• Kamo River (Russia)

People

• Kamo (Bolshevik) (1882–1922), real name of Simon Ter-Petrosian, Armenian-Georgian Bolshevik
• Kamo, nickname of former New Zealand sportsman Ian Jones (rugby union, born 1967)
• Kamo clan, surname of a Japanese clan (賀茂, 加茂, 鴨, 加毛)
  • Kamo Wake-ikazuchi ^[ja],ancestral deity of the clan and Shinto deity of thunder
  • Kamo no Chōmei (1155–1216), an author
  • Kamo no Mabuchi (1697–1769), a poet
  • Shu Kamo (born 1939), a football player and manager
  • Kamo no Yasunori (917–977), an onmyōji
• first name (given name) of Serizawa Kamo (1826?–1863), commander of the Shinsengumi warriors
• Kamo (character), from the anime Doomed Megalopolis — the apprentice of Yasumasa Hirai
• Kamo (character) from the videogame The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
• Kamo Mphela (born 1999), a Amapiano artist

Cuisine

• kamo in Japanese cuisine may refer to the poultry product of the wild duck, the domesticated duck, or very frequently the crossbred variety known as aigamo ^[ja]. It may appear on menu items such as kamonanban (hot soba).
• kamo is one of Eggplant#Cultivars, of a large round shape; it is one of the better known "Kyoto vegetables" or Kyoyasai.

Other

• Kamo (play) ^[ja], Noh play featuring the deity.
• Kamo language, a Savannas language of Nigeria

See also

• Camo