Tamura

Family name origins & meanings

• Japanese : usually written with characters meaning ‘rice paddy village’; it is especially common in the Kyōto–Ōsaka region and the northeast. Most bearers descend from Date Muneyoshi (17th century). His mother was a descendant of Shōgun Sakanoue Tamuramaro (758–811), who was a descendant of Sino-Korean prince Achi no Omi, who settled in Japan in the late 4th century.