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  Kammu
Emperor Kammu (桓武天皇) was the 50th imperial ruler of Japan.
Kammu also sponsored the travels of the monks Saicho[?] and Kukai[?] to China, from where they returned to found the Japanese branches of, respectively, Tendai[?] and Shingon[?] Buddhism.
He was an active emperor who set up new government organisations and fought the Ezo[?] tribes in the north of the country.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ka/Kammu.html   (91 words)

  
 Laos - Midland Lao Society
Kammu and Lamet households average between six and seven persons but may be as large as twelve or fourteen persons.
Kammu and Lamet, as most Lao Theung, are animists and are respected by their lowland neighbors as being especially proficient in protecting against or propitiating spirits that may cause illness or accidents.
Kammu and Lamet revere rather than fear the spirits of their ancestors, who protect the household and village against harm as long as they are respected and are offered sacrifices.
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 Emperor Kammu of Japan (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emperor Kammu Emperor Kammu (&26707;&27494;&22825;&30343;) (737-806) was the 50th imperial ruler of Japan.
Kammu was the son of the Emperor Konin.
Kammu was born before his father ascended to the throne.
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 Taira
The first emperor to start granting the name Taira to his princes was the emperor Kammu.
The Kammu Heishi[?] line proved to be the most strong and dominant line during the late Heian period with Taira no Kiyomori eventually forming the first samurai dominated government in the history of Japan.
The last of the Kammu Heishi line was eventually destroyed by the armies of Minamoto no Yoritomo at the Battle of Dannoura[?], the last battle of the Gempei War[?].
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 Laos Midland Lao Society
Damrong Tayanin, an anthropologist of Kammu origin, has described a pattern of land tenure for the Kammu in which households own a large number of separate fields that are farmed over a twelve- to fifteen-year rotation; other households recognize these ownership rights.
Kammu group the clans according to three categories-- quadruped, bird, or plant-- depending on the clan's totem.
Wooden and bronze drums were important symbols of Lamet and Kammu household wealth in the past, but most appear to have been lost or sold during the Indochina wars.
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 Emperor Kammu of Japan (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emperor Kammu (桓武天皇) (737-806) was the 50th imperial ruler of Japan.
According to the chronicles of Japan II (續日本紀), Emperor Kammu's mother was a decendant of King Muryeong of Baekje, Korea.
Kammu Kammu Kammu de:Kammu it:Kammu imperatore del Giappone ja:桓武天皇 ko:간무 천황 zh-cn:桓武天皇
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 Kammu-Vietnam
He told us that he was going to follow us to the Kammu villages in Dien Bien Phu Province, but that he was very nervous, because he did not know anything about the Kammu.
Her melody is the same as is sung by Kammu people in Phongsaly and Xieng Khuang provinces in northern Laos.
It is taboo to steam rice at noon, people steam rice at noon only when the family is going to make a ceremony for instance a sacrifice to their ancestors or when they have many helpers in the work.
www.ling.lu.se /persons/Damrong/kammuviet.html   (0 words)

  
 Japan - The Fujiwara Regency
When Kammu moved the capital to Heian (Kyoto), which remained the imperial capital for the next 1,000 years, he did so not only to strengthen imperial authority but also to improve his seat of government geopolitically.
Although Kammu had abandoned universal conscription in 792, he still waged major military offensives to subjugate the Emishi, possible descendants of the displaced Jomon, living in northern and eastern Japan.
Following Kammu's death in 806 and a succession struggle among his sons, two new offices were established in an effort to adjust the Taika-Taiho administrative structure.
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 Mount Hiei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
All this changed in six years when the Emperor Kammu moved the capital from Nara to the area around Mount Hiei.
It was one of those strange practical jokes of history: Kammu, a devoted Confucian, originally moved the capital in order to get away from the Buddhists.
   Kammu took a liking to the young priest, though, and sent him to China in 804 to further his training as a Buddhist priest.
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/ANCJAPAN/HIEI.HTM   (0 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:kjg
Khmu was counted separately in the 1982 census and combined into a group of 'Undetermined Minorities'.
Phsing (Bit) is regarded as Khmu in China, but is in the Palaungic branch (Svantesson 1990).
Təəm and other Kammu vocal genre in the singing of Kam Raw, by Hakan Lundström.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=kjg   (0 words)

  
 Utawarerumono - 24 at Xebek’s Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She says to Hakuoro she doesn’t want to be his enemy, but has no choice as a leader of Kunnekamun.
Kuuya falls out of her Avu Kammu and says how this can’t be.
Although it was a little fuzzy on what exactly he was supposed to get in return, in the end he accepted Genjimaru’s life but it seemed as if that wasn’t the original agreed price.
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 Kammu Home Page (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kammu Calendar 2006 in Kammu and English (pdf)
The traditional Kammu society: A good rice-wine maker is a good daughter-in-law, A good cook is a good son-in-law
Sixty years cycle celebration of the Kammu birthyear.
www.ling.lu.se.cob-web.org:8888 /persons/Damrong/kammu1.html   (0 words)

  
 Kammu Research:Culture (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lindell-Samuelsson-Tayanin: Kinship and Marriage in Northern Kammu Villages: the Kinship Model, in Sociologus 29.
The aims of the study are: to reach an understanding of one Kammu-speaker's way of vocally performing highly varied sets of words in the form of a poem with intricate rhymes, of handling a repertoire of different performance manners, and of using these abilities in communication with other singers.
Lundström-Tayanin: Kammu gongs and drums 1: The kettlegong, gongs and cymbals, in Asian Folklore Studies 40:1, Nagoya.
www.ling.lu.se.cob-web.org:8888 /research/profileareas/KammuResearch/pub_culture.html   (0 words)

  
 Folk Tales from Kammu - V: A Young Story-Teller's Tales:0700702970:Lindell, Kristina; Swahn, Jan-Ojvind; Tayanin, ...
Folk Tales from Kammu - V: A Young Story-Teller's Tales:0700702970:Lindell, Kristina; Swahn, Jan-Ojvind; Tayanin, Damrong:eCampus.com
The Children Of Nafta: Labor Wars On The U.s./mexico Border
Folk Tales from Kammu - VI: A Teller's Last Tales
www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0700702970   (0 words)

  
  Kammu KDE-Apps.org
I think I'll subscribe the ML and stay in touch with the development
:) There are plans to share efforts with the kmobiletools team since kammu exists.
kammu: ERROR: Communication problem with kammu, it probably crashed.
www.kde-apps.org /content/show.php?content=18700   (0 words)

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