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The Chiba clan (千葉氏 Chiba-shi) was a Japanese gōzoku and samurai family descending from the Taira clan. The clan was founded by Chiba Tsunetane , the son of Taira no Tadatsune . The Chiba governed in Shimōsa Province , and the clan was based in present-day Chiba City .
Chiba (千葉市, Chiba-shi, pronounced) is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It sits about 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of the centre of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay. [1] The city became a government-designated city in 1992. In December 2024, its population was 985,059, with a population density of 3,605 people per km 2. The city has an area of ...
Pages in category "History of Chiba Prefecture" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Chiba Prefecture leads the nation in the production of several vegetables, including carrots; cabbage; daikon radish; negi, the ubiquitous Japanese cultivar of the Welsh onion; loquat; nashi, the Japanese cultivar of the pear, which has a two hundred-year history of cultivation in the prefecture; tomatoes; and spinach [29] [30] It is the nation ...
The first, 千 (chi), means "thousand" and the second, 葉 (ba) means "leaves". The name first appears as an ancient kuni no miyatsuko, or regional command office, as the Chiba Kuni no Miyatsuko (千葉国造). The name was adopted by a branch of the Taira clan, which moved to the area in present-day Chiba City in the late Heian period.
Chiba 35°36′14″N 140°07′34″E / 35.603842°N 140.126063°E / 35.603842; 140.126063 ( Graves of Totsuka-ha Yōshin-ryū Founder Totsuka Hikosuke Hidetoshi and Second Generation Totsuka Hideyoshi
Chiba (千葉郡, Chiba-gun, or in premodern reading Chiba no kōri/kohori) was a district located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The district was dissolved on January 1, 1967, when the town of Yachiyo was elevated to city status. Under the Ritsuryō system, Chiba is a district of Shimōsa Province in Tōkai Circuit.
The Kazusa Takeda clan, established at the beginning of the Sengoku period in Kazusa Province in the present-day central area of Chiba Prefecture. Along with the Satomi clan of Awa Province in the southern part of present-day Chiba Prefecture the two clans replaced the dominance of the Chiba clan in the region. The Kazusa Takeda is also known ...