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  • Chris Hansen
    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. http://genealogy.familyeducation.com/surname-origin/kawabata?detoured=1
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