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Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘rock river’; found mostly in eastern Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands. Listed in the Shinsen shōjiroku. One family, descended from Minamoto no Yoshitoki (11th–12th centuries), settled in Kawachi (now part of Ōsaka prefecture) and took the place name Ishikawa as their surname.