Khitan Tatars, in China
Ki, family founded by Ki no Tsunu, descendant of Takenouchi; eligible to high office
—Haseo (845-912), famous scholar; plot to send him with Michizane to
China; prose
—Hirozumi, leader against Yemishi, killed by them (780)
—Kosami (733-97), general against Yemishi (789), is defeated and degraded; report of the campaign
—Omaro, Japanese general in Korea, 6th century
—Tsurayuki (883-946), prose preface to Kokin-shu; Tosa Nikki
Kibi, old name for Bingo, Bitchu and Bizen provinces; Jimmu's stay in
—no Mabi or Makibi (693-775), Japanese student in China, minister of the Right, inventor of syllabary; opposition to Fujiwara; minister of the Right under Koken; opposes succession of Shirakabe (Konin); as littérateur
Kibumi, school of painters (604 A.D.)