Ami

AMI or Ami or AmI may refer to:

Organizations

Ami (given name)

Ami is a given name of Hebrew, Japanese, and Indian origins.

Possible writing in Japanese

People

Ami (genus)

Ami is a genus of tarantula spiders of South and Central America.

Description

The body lengths of the species range from 17 to 21 mm.

Name

The genus is named after a word in the Tupí language, meaning "spider that does not spin a web". A. caxiuana is named after the type locality, which means "place of many snakes" in Tupí; A. yupanquii is named after the Inca leader Tupac Yupanqui, who unified the agricultural populations of Ecuador; A. bladesi received its name in honor of Panamanian singer and composer Ruben Blades. A. pijaos honors the Pijaos, an ancient culture that populated the region of the type locality. A. amazonica refers to the Colombian amazonic region. A. weinmanni is named after Dirk Weinmann, the collector of the type specimens.

Relationships

Ami seems to more Pseudhapalopus than to other genera of the large subfamily Theraphosinae. It is also similar to the small brownish genera Cyclosternum and Reversopelma.

Species

Kan

Kan or KAN may refer to:

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Music

Kansas

Kansas ⁱ/ˈkænzəs/ is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind", although this was probably not the term's original meaning. Residents of Kansas are called "Kansans". For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. Kansas was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue.

When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists eventually prevailed, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland. Today, Kansas is one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans. Kansas is the 15th most extensive and the 34th most populous of the 50 United States.

Kan (musician)

Kan Kimura (木村 和, Kimura Kan, born September 24, 1962), known by his stage name Kan (commonly stylized as KAN), is a Japanese singer-songwriter.

In 1986, Kan wrote the background music for the film directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, and started his recording career the following year. He is best known for the chart-topping hit "Ai wa Katsu", released as a single in 1990. It sold over 2 million copies and won the 33rd Japan Record Award, bringing the artist into prominence. Subsequently, he spawned five top-ten singles and four top-ten albums on the Japanese record chart during the first half of the 1990s.

Kan has released 33 singles and 15 studio albums. According to the Oricon, he has sold over 4.6 million copies of albums and singles in his home country.

Discography

Singles

Albums

References

Kan'ami

Kan'ami Kiyotsugu (観阿弥 清次); 1333 – June 8, 1384, was a Japanese Noh actor, author, and musician during the Muromachi period. Born Kiyotsugu Yūzaki (結崎 清次, Yūzaki Kiyotsugu) in Iga Province, Kan'ami also went by the names Miyomaru (観世丸) and Kanze Kiyotsugu (観世 清次).

Theater

Kan'ami's career began in Obata when he founded a Sarugaku theater group. The troupe moved to Yamato and formed the Yuzaki theater company, which would eventually become the school of Noh theater. He grew in popularity, and began making trips to Kyoto to give performances. In 1374, the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was in the audience of a performance and was so impressed by it that he became Kan'ami's patron.

Kan'ami was the first playwright to incorporate the Kusemai song and dance style and Dengaku dances from rustic harvest celebrations. He trained his son Zeami Motokiyo in his style, who eventually succeeded him as director of the Kanze school of Noh. Kan'ami died in Suruga Province.

Notable works