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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘rice paddy near the river’; the version of this name written with the more common character for ‘river’ is found in the Tōkyō and Ōsaka areas; the version with the traditional character for ‘river’ is found mostly in western Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands.

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