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Hayashi

Updated: April 22, 2025
Updated: April 22, 2025

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘forest’; variously written, found mostly in western Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands. Listed in the Shinsen shōjiroku. One family produced several noted scholars during the Tokugawa era (1600–1867).

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