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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : variously written, mostly with characters meaning ‘inner rice paddy’, denoting a field within an enclosure. It is a common name throughout Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands, and was adopted by some samurai families. It is listed in the Shinsen shōjiroku.

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