GIS Workshop in 2009
Group 6
Du Qifeng, Till Hinrich, Anna Matsukawa
2009/04/13

NAME COUNT –SAITO( )
“Saito” is the most popular
name in our five name.
Most of them are living in
east area, especially in
Niigata and Hokkaido.

NAME COUNT – OTANI( )–
“Otani” isn’t so unusual
name but character “ ”
is unusually to use for this
name. “ ” is more
popular.
Interesting point is middle
north of Japan, like
Toyama and Ishikawa,
have more Otani than
others.

NAME COUNT – SHIMA ( )–
“Shima” is the only name
that really popular in
Okinawa in our five name.
Also Many Shima lives in
Toyama and Fukuoka.

NAME COUNT INUI( )
Most “Inui” people live in
Kansai area, especially
in Hyogo.

NAME COUNT CHIN( )
“Chin” is the rarest
name in our five name
and pronounce is like
Chinese or Korean
name.
They are living in old
trade lodgment, like
Kanagawa, Hyogo and
Fukuoka.

Area Name FPM
OKINAWA , JAPAN 682.68
SHIKOKU , JAPAN 534.79
Area Name FPM
KINKI , JAPAN 760.06
SHIKOKU , JAPAN 470.82
Area Name FPM
TOHOKU , JAPAN 25727.14
HOKKAIDO , JAPAN Area Name
14712.72 FPM
Area Name
CHUGOKU , JAPAN FPM
1543.67
NORTHERN TERRITORY , 2483.06
KINKI , JAPAN 1472.21
AUSTRALIA
WELLINGTON CITY , NEW- 938.9
ZEALAND

TOP 4 Prefectures for Each Name

Origin of Name ~Saito~
 Character “ ” were came from Fujiwara( ) clan they had very
strong political power in Heian era. Since they were so strong, there
were many Fujiwara people, so they made difference by added
place name or job name to their name. But they wanted to show
their origin was Fujiwara clan so they kept “ ” character in their
name.
 “ ” character came from the job called “ (Saigugashira)”,
which is work at dormitory fot vestal virgin princess serving at Ise
Jingu Shrine, and their duty is taking care of those princess.

Origin of Name ~Saito~
 “SAI” the Character of “a variant
form of a letter” is often called in
Japan.”a varian form of a letter” is
born form old era when there were
not have the world processor and
computer,even the printing,so
people always made a misspell and
misunderstood. For example there
is one line missed or more and have
not dot or more like this picture. So
there are lots of spell like “ ”“
”“ ”“ ”.

Origin of Name ~Otani~
 This is the most mysterious name in our five name.
 One possible hypothesis is their ancestors were some kind of
merchant and they made their name by putting “Ya (shop)” after
their merchandise or place name. In Meiji era, when they had to
register their name, they took out change Character “ ” or change
to “ .” In Toyama, most of them took it out but in Akita and Osaka,
they chose to change the character.
 However, in that case, the pronounce should be “Ya”, not “Tani”, so
maybe it made because they lived around the end( ) of valley( ).

Origin of Name ~Shima~
 Long time ago, when most people didn’t have their family name,
they decide their own last name themselves and usually they
named after their living area. That is why there are so many name
contain “Yama” or “Ta”.
 In that case, “Shima” is maybe the name for people who live on the
island or close to ocean. We can see many “Shima” live in Okinawa
and this can be a confirmation for above hypothesis.
Tips: Japan is surrounded by
ocean but there are much less
name that contain “Umi” than
“Yama” or “Ta.” That can be
explained by same hypothesis
because no one can live on the
ocean!

“Inui” means the direction
of North-West, made by
mixing “Inu” and “I
(Inoshishi)” in Japanese
old cardinal direction.
There are many “Inui” in
Hyogo prefecture since
Hyogo is North-west of
Kyoto, Japanese old
capital.
Japanese Old Cardinal Direction

Origin of Name ~Chin~
 “Chin” is very unique name in Japan. Character or came
from China and came from Korea.
 For example, (Chin Jukan) is a member of famous
ceramic artist clan “Chin” in Kagoshima and their ancestors
were kidnapped from Korea during Toyotomi era.
 These evidence are not contradicting the map.

Conclusion
 Job : SAITO
OTANI
 Area : SHIMA
INUI
 Immigrants:CHIN

Surname Group Subgroup Language
SAITO EAST ASIAN & PACIFIC JAPANESE JAPANESE
OTANI EAST ASIAN & PACIFIC JAPANESE JAPANESE
SHIMA EAST ASIAN & PACIFIC JAPANESE JAPANESE
INUI EAST ASIAN & PACIFIC JAPANESE JAPANESE
CHIN EAST ASIAN & PACIFIC CHINESE CHINESE
Only Chin’s origin is out side of Japan.

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