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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese (found throughout Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands) : ‘pine tree hill’, usually denoting a sacred hilltop grove. Small Shintō shrines, always surrounded by trees and usually on hilltops, are found all over the country. See also Matsuda and Matsumoto.

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