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Kawabata

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : ‘side or bank of the river’; written two ways, with two different characters for kawa ‘river’. One family is descended from the northern Fujiwara through the Saionji family; the other from the Sasaki family. The name is also found in Okinawa Island.

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