Koto
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Koto may refer to:
- Koto (musical instrument)Koto (musical instrument)The koto is a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument, similar to the Chinese guzheng, the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum and the Vietnamese đàn tranh. The koto is the national instrument of Japan. Koto are about length, and made from kiri wood...
, a Japanese musical instrument - Koto (traditional clothing)Koto (traditional clothing)The koto is a traditional dress from the Afro-Surinamese women or Creoles in Suriname. The koto was developed during the slavery period in Suriname; its special purpose was to protect the Afro-Surinamese woman against their masters’ sexual interest....
, a traditional dress made by Creole women in Suriname - Koto (band)Koto (band)Koto is an Italian synth pop group that originally consisted of Anfrando Maiola and Stefano Cundari, later with the Dutch composer Michiel van der Kuy.- History :...
, Italian/Dutch synth pop group - Kōtō, TokyoKoto, Tokyois one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008, the ward has an estimated population of 442,271 and a population density of 11,070 persons per km². The total area is 39.48 km². The ward refers to itself as Kōtō City in English....
, a ward in Tokyo, Japan - Koto (kana)Koto (kana), read as koto, is a typographic ligature in the Japanese language, consisting of a combination of the katakana graphs of and , and thus represents their combined sound, コト . It is drawn with one stroke. It is uncommon and used only in vertical writing....
, a ligature of two Japanese katakana - The novel The Old CapitalThe Old CapitalThe Old Capital is a novel by Yasunari Kawabata originally published in 1962. It was first translated into English in 1987 by J. Martin Holman...
by Yasunari Kawabata, originally titled "Koto" in Japanese - KOTOKOTOKOTO is a not-for-profit restaurant and vocational training program based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Its staff consists primarily of former street children who have received training in catering through KOTO itself or other similar charities....
, a not-for-profit restaurant and vocational training program based in Hanoi, Vietnam. - KOTO experiment, a particle physics experiment at J-PARCJ-PARCJ-PARC is a high intensity proton accelerator facility. It is a joint project between KEK and JAEA and is located at the Tokai campus of JAEA. J-PARC aims for the frontier in materials and life sciences, and nuclear and particle physics...
, Japan. - Pterygota bequaertiiPterygota bequaertiiPterygota bequaertii is a species of flowering plant in the Sterculiaceae family.It is found in Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, and Nigeria.It is threatened by exploitation as a timber tree....
, a timber species referred to by the trade name "Koto"