Chiyo

Chiyo Miyako (born 2 May 1901) is the world's oldest verified living person.

Chiyo Uno was a female Japanese author who wrote several notable works and a known kimono designer. She had a significant influence on Japanese fashion, film and literature. She was born in a section of Iwakuni known as Kawanishi, "west of the river." Following an initial literary success and winning of a short story prize, Uno left her first husband and moved to Tokyo. Like many young Japanese of the 1920s, Uno was fascinated with American and European culture and dress and was one of the first women in Japan to bob her hair like a flapper. Beyond hairstyles, Uno also began to pursue the life of a free-spirited woman. She wanted to be a mo ga, or modern girl, and not confined to just the role of supportive wife and mother. She became part of the Bohemian world of Tokyo, having liaisons with other writers, poets and painters.

Chiyo Okumura is a popular Japanese pop singer, and former fashion model who debuted in the 1960s. My mother, Michiko Kobayashi, born Dec 2 1946, was the original and the first singer Chiyo Okumura during the 60s and she left Japan and quit singing around the late 60s after which another girl took on the stage name and continued singing using her stage name, she left after giving birth to my brother Joji in 67, her father was the famous actor Fujiwara Kamatari, she was declared dead to the family and removed from all family records due to the fact her father was a strong traditionalist and felt disgraced by the fact that she fell in love with my father Walter Hufnagel, who was an air force sergeant stationed in Okinawa, she broke her contract with Columbia records and left with much dismay for the USA during 1970, she had much trouble obtaining a passport due to her father removing her from the birth records. To this day she has not been paid any royalties from her work as Chiyo Okumura from Columbia records. She is known for songs such as "Koi no Dorei" and "Shuuchakueki". Her cover of The Ventures recording, "Hokkaido Skies" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. She followed this recording with another hit, "Ginza Lights".

Chiyo Ishikawa is a museum curator and is included in the new book In Their Shoes by the author Debroah Reber.

Chiyo Mihama is the ten-year-old high school student in Azumanga Daioh. She's uber cute.

This is the name of an old lady in Naruto: Shippuden.

Chiyo is the name of the main character in Arthur Golden's novel, "Memoirs of a Geisha." She later changes her name to Sayuri.

In the novel/movie Memoirs of a Geisha, the main character bears this name. Her full name is Sakamoto Chiyo & her name is written with the kanjis for 'thousand generations'. She later becomes a geisha & gets renamed Sayuri, after the master of the Okiya adopts her, she becomes Nitta Sayuri near the end of the novel/movie.

In the video game Way of the Samurai 2, Docter Genan's assistant is named Chiyo.