Japanese: variously written, usually with characters meaning
‘wooden door’. A less usual rendering is ‘castle door’. It is found in
western Japan. One family of samurai came from Suo (now part of
Yamaguchi prefecture).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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