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Chiba (written: ちば, 千葉, 地場) is a Japanese surname.Notable people with the surname include: Akira Chiba (born 1959), president of The Pokémon Company; Chiemi Chiba (千葉 千恵巳, born 1975), Japanese voice actress and singer
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.
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. The branch of the Taira adopted the name and became the Chiba clan, which held strong influence over the area of the prefecture until the Azuchi–Momoyama period.
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 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 ...
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [ 2 ]
The name "Kashiwanoha Park" is derived from the name of Chiba Prefectural Kashiwanoha Park, which was developed earlier in the year. The park was named by Hirotaka Saito, head teacher of Tanaka-kita elementary school in Kashiwa city in 1985, after the oak tree that survived the harsh winter and kept its previous leaves intact until new buds ...
Chiba (city), capital of Chiba Prefecture Chiba Station, a train station; Chiba Prefecture, a sub-national jurisdiction in the Greater Tokyo Area on the eastern coast of Honshū; Port of Chiba, Chiba Prefecture