Kosai
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Kosai can stand for:
- Hiroki KosaiHiroki Kosaiis a Japanese astronomer with the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. He is best known for helping to popularize astronomy in Japan and for his observations of comets and asteroids, most notably with his co-discovery the comet 1976 XVI. The asteroid 3370 Kohsai is named in his honor.- External links :* *...
, 20th-century Japanese astronomer, prolific discoverer of asteroids - Kosai, ShizuokaKosai, Shizuokais a city located in far western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the city has an estimated population of 60,582 and a density of 699 persons per km². The total area is 85.65 km².-Geography:...
, Japan, a city - Kosai Matsumoto...
- Kosai Motonaga...
- KōsaiKōsaiwas a former monk of the Tendai Buddhist sect and controversial disciple of Hōnen who advocated the that led to his public censure, his later expulsion by Hōnen and eventual exile to Shikoku...
a disciple of Hōnen of the Jōdo Shū Buddhist sect - Kosai riverKosai riverThe Kosai River is a small river located near Kharagpur in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the primary source of water supply for the township and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur....
, near Kharagpur in the Indian state of West Bengal - Count Kosai Uchida (or Uchida Yasuya), 19th-20th century Japanese statesman and diplomat
- Wiang Kosai, a national park in the Phrae and Lampang provinces of Thailand
- Yoshihide Kosai (or, more frequently, Yoshihide Kozai), 20th-century Japanese astronomer, discoverer of the periodic comet D/1977 C1 (D/Skiff-Kosai) and of the Kozai mechanismKozai mechanismIn celestial mechanics, the Kozai mechanism, or the Lidov-Kozai mechanism, causes a periodic exchange between the inclination and eccentricity of an orbit...