Azuma Family History

Japanese: from an archaic word used to mean ‘east’ originally applied to the fifteen northern and eastern provinces of Japan. The name is most commonly written with the character for ‘east’ 東 (higashi) but some families write it 吾妻 which literally means ‘my wife’.

The pronunciation Azuma is found mostly in western Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands while the name Higashi is more common along the southeastern seaboard.