Do you know any japanese last names and their meanings?

like these


Itoe (bless with love) , Naoko (obedient child) , Kawashima (river island) , Michiyo (three thousand generations) , Shiraishi (white stone)


(i would like them to be more than one word plz)


thanks

Do you know any japanese last names and their meanings?
Itoe and Naoko are more commonly given names.





Here are a few very very common ones:





Kobayashi - little grove


Tanaka - middle of a rice field


Suzuki - wooden bell


Takahashi - tall bridge


Yamamoto - mountain base
Reply:Michiyo is also a given name, not a last name.





Wikipedia has the common sur names of various countries, Japan included. If you click on the links of the last names, sometimes more than one click, it takes you to a page with the meaning of the kanji for that name.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mos...
Reply:The meaning really depends how it stands in Kanji character.


For instance, Kawashima I can spell as 川島　or 川嶋 or 河島　etc....





Sato is the most popular family name in Japan.


And most of them are spelled as 佐藤







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