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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘stony rice paddy’; variously written. One family comes from Iwata-mura in Chichibu-gun, Musashi (now part of western Tōkyō). Another family is descended from the Sugawara family of Chikugo (now part of Saga prefecture).

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