Interesting surprises about the Japanese family

At the current 'Cherry Blossom Land' there are more than 120,000 different families and this is the country with the largest number of people in the world. This is probably a unique feature of Japanese culture when even native people sometimes do not know how to read and write their surname. One more interesting thing is, the Emperor - the reigning family for thousands of years in this country is the only lineage without them .

Japan has more than 120,000 families.

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From the 13th to the 17th centuries, Japanese names were widely used (except for samurai that were not named), but Japanese people had very few lineages with family names (princes and aristocrats) .

Before the Meiji reform, 80% of the Japanese population did not have them. Since the 1883s, to facilitate the management and collection of taxes, each citizen has been forced to choose and register them for himself. People began to frantically look for their surname, most of them asked the intellectuals, the village chiefs put them . and there were countless them placed on the characteristics of family positions, trees, and even is the neighbor's last name .

Emperor Minh Tri, who indirectly helped Japanese people have surname, .
but his lineage did not have them.

And the interesting thing

Because there are so many people who need to set them up, the village chiefs, the intellectuals have assigned the convention to put them:

- The uncle's house has a sycamore tree so they are taken from: Matsushita (meaning: under the root)

- My family before the river should take them: Maekawa (meaning: river ahead).

Rivers and mountains . are the source of many families in Japan.

So the people race to name themselves: whoever is in the mountain brings the surname Yamashita, whoever is outside the island, takes the surname: Nakajima .

Named after the place name : Chiba, Wakamatsu ., according to the characteristics of mountains, fields: Mori, Yamada, Ogawa ., in the direction: Higashi, Nishimura . and these families account for 90% of the total number of more than 120,000 Japanese.

Put together the surname of the famous lineage : Fujiwara. They put the word Fuji in the local name: Kato, Ito, Sato, Saito, Koto, Goto . creating surname names such as Fujikato, FujiIto . while the descendants of Fujiwara carry the surname: Fujikawa, Fujimoto, Fujiwara.

That's why: in Achi province, there is a village that carries all the plants: Daikon (radish), Ninjin (Carrot) . There are villages with all the names of shrimp and fish: Tai, Himera . are the same as the aquarium. Sometimes the whole village brings a family, which makes it more difficult for the postmen.

Currently in Japan among more than 120,000 families, some of them have a large number of them: Sato, Suzuki, Takahashi, Tanaka, Watanabe, Ito, Yamamoto, Nakamura, Kobayashi and Kato.

What is special, though, ruling over the country for thousands of years, Thien Hoang is the only watchdog who does not have them in the world's most populous country.