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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : meaning ‘small lake’. Some families descend from the Taira clan, some from the northern Fujiwara, and others from the Seiwa-Genji. The surname is found chiefly in eastern Japan and also in the Ryūkyū Islands.

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