Fujitani Family History
Fujitani Name Meaning
Japanese: written 藤谷 ‘wisteria valley’. A samurai family of the Mito clan in Hitachi (now Ibaraki prefecture) bore the name but it is a common placename. Mostly found in western Japan but in eastern Japan it is pronounced Fujiya. It is sometimes written 富士谷 phonetically.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022