Last name origin & meaning: Japanese: ‘wild orange’; the name is listed in the Shinsen
shōjiroku. It was first taken as a surname by the distinguished
statesman Katsuragi Moroe (684–757), a son of imperial prince Minu
and Tachibana no Michiyo (d. 733), a court lady of great renown.
Several poems by Moroe and one of his mother’s are included in the
eighth-century anthology Manyōshū. Few bearers today are likely
to be descended from this family however, due to the practice followed
long ago of taking one’s master’s name as one’s own. The name is found
mostly in eastern Japan.
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