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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘rice paddy near the lake’; found throughout Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands, and variously written. One family, descended from the Minamoto, were daimyō of Ōmi (now Shiga prefecture). Listed in the Shinsen shōjiroku.

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