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kyoto
/ˈkjoʊtoʊ/
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What does kyoto mean?
proper noun
- A prefecture on the island of Honshu, Japan.
- The capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan; and the country's former capital.
- The Kyoto Protocol.
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In the principal Kyoto temple I had for guide a minute Japanese with the ecstatic passion for trifles that seems to mark his race.
Later, at Nikko and in the Nijo castle in Kyoto, we see structural beauty sacrificed to a wealth of ornamentation which in colour and exquisite detail equals the utmost gorgeousness of Arabian or Moorish effort.
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Compared with the splendid temples of Nikko in Japan, glowing with scarlet and black lacquer, and gleaming with gold, temples on which cunning craftsmanship of wood-carving, enamels and bronze-work has been lavished in almost superfluous profusion, or even with the severer but dignified temples of unpainted cryptomeria wood at Kyoto, this Chinese pagoda was scarcely worth looking at.