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Chiba is one of the oldest Chinese musical woodwind instruments. It is a type of xiao, meaning it is a vertical end-blown flute. Unlike the northern xiao, is bears resemblance to most of the southern xiao, in that it is shorter, wider, has an open mouthpiece, slightly conical, and generally has a root end. Of the three main types of southern xiao (known as nanxiao) it is the one that most closely resembles the Japanese shakuhachi (also 尺八). Most nanxiao (and northern beixiao) have a "notched" mouthpiece that is either U-shaped (Cantonese style) or V-shaped ( Fujianese style), whereas the chiba has an angled edge instead, giving it a far breathier sound, like that of the shakuhachi. A possible distinction between shakuhachi and chiba, is that most modern shakuhachi have an ivory inlay in the mouthpiece, whereas the chiba does not. Shakuhachi also typically only have five large finger holes (four in front and thumb), whereas chiba may have from five to eight finger holes, emulating the design of other Chinese xiao.
Category:Chinese musical instruments Category:End-blown flutes
Chiba (written: 千葉 lit. "thousand leaves") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Akira Chiba, president of The Pokémon Company
- Chiba Ginko, a gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Kaori Chiba (born 1981), Japanese field hockey player
- Kazuo Chiba (born 1940), Japanese Aikido teacher
- Keiko Chiba (born 1948), Japanese Minister of Justice
- Reiko Chiba (born 1975), Japanese actress
- Ryohei Chiba (born 1984), Japanese singer
- Saeko Chiba (born 1977), Japanese voice actress
- Saïd Chiba (born 1970), Moroccan footballer
- Shigetane Chiba, a Japanese military commander
- Shigeru Chiba (born 1954; also known as Masaharu Maeda), Japanese voice actor
- Chiba Shusaku Narimasa (1794–1856), founder of the Hokushin Itto school of swordsmanship
- Sonny Chiba (born 1939; also known as Shin'ichi Chiba), Japanese actor
- Susumu Chiba (born 1970), Japanese voice actor
- Teisuke Chiba (1917–1965), photographer
- Tetsuya Chiba (born 1939), Japanese manga artist
- Chiba clan, a Japanese clan
- Tsunetane Chiba, a Japanese military commander
- Fatema Chiba, an Indian teacher
Fictional characters:
- Mamoru Chiba (also known as Darien Shields), the only major male character from the Sailor Moon anime and manga series
- Atsuko Chiba, main character of the 2006 film Paprika
- Kirino Chiba , a fictional character from anime Bamboo Blade
- Ryuunosuke Chiba, a character in Assassination Classroom anime and manga
Usage examples of "chiba".
Armed men from Itsa and Chiba provinces should be making their way toward us as we speak.
We destroy all crops as we go, but once the barbarians have reached Chiba, this will become more difficult and if they cross the border into Dentou it will be impossible.
This one obviously earned a meager living in Chiba City handling excess power surges for the otaku collective.
Koyama would go onto his roof with a pair of Fujinan naval binoculars that he had purchased in Chiba from a starving ex-submarine captain in 1946.
But if a goldfish went woof woof, it would be an empty threat, because what harm could a goldfish do you, even a very large, pumped-up on steroids kind of goldfish who had possibly studied all the Sonny Chiba films and knew a lot of spiffy moves?
In Chiba, Domoto Akiko, a sixty-eight-year-old former television reporter, prevailed against candidates backed by business, trade unions, and the various political parties.
They made their landfall at Yawata Saki, directly across the Chiba Peninsula from Tokyo Bay, with the sun just a few degrees off the horizon over Tokyo.
They left one of the ships stopped and smoking, and cut eastward across the top of the flat Chiba Peninsula at treetop height to Naruto, which the day strikes seemed to have put entirely out of commission, Katori where there was no damage but no activity either, and finally Choshi, where they strafed some parked Jacks and Zekes and ran into light, but highly accurate, AA which holed the tail of one of the marauding Hellcats.
Largess hit the coast 180 miles from base to Cape Inubo due east of Tokyo, without encountering any ships at all, and followed the same course the fighters had taken the previous afternoon, around the tip of the Chiba Peninsula and up into Tokyo Bay.
T-shirt was sleeveless, faint telltales of Chiba City circuitry traced along her thin arms.
The persona, who called herself the New Blue Rose of Chiba City for no reason Konstantin could discern, was an assassin, a popular occupation among lowdown children, but at least not a gang member, or a whore.