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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘original rice paddy’; variously written, common throughout Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands. One daimyō family of Mikawa (now part of Aichi prefecture) is descended from the Fujiwara. Another family was samurai from Satsuma (now Kagoshima prefecture).

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