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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘marketplace river’; variously written, a common place name throughout Japan. One branch of the Taira clan lived in a place called Ichikawa-gō in Kai (now Yamanashi Prefecture), and took that name. Found mostly in eastern Japan.

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