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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese (rare in Japan proper, but more common in the Ryūkyū Islands) : written with characters meaning ‘shrine’ and ‘level’, probably a topographic name denoting a shrine on a flat place rather than, as is more usual, on a hill.

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