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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : there are two forms of this name, both written with characters meaning ‘storehouse’ and ‘rice paddy’. The more frequent version is found mainly in western Honshū and the Kyōto-Ōsaka area, and its bearers are descended from the Abel clan through the Sasaki family.

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