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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘stone cape’; variously written, also pronounced Iwazaki and Iwagasaki. A common place name throughout Japan, found as a surname in western Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands. One family was samurai of Tosa (now Kōchi prefecture).

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