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Matsudaira
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from en ja 松平 Matsudaira.
Proper noun
s
en Japanese.
1973, Staff writer(s), Report to the Governor on Discrimination Against Asians: Public Hearing Conducted on March 3, 1973, Seattle, Washington, Washington (State). Asian-American Advisory Council, page vi:
Staff assistance was provided by Council Director Martin Matsudaira.
1982, Mayumi Tsutakawa and Alan Chong Lau, Turning Shadows Into Light: Art and Culture of the Northwest's Early Asian/Pacific Community, Young Pine Press, page 1901:
Zoe Dusanne, one of the area's first gallery owners, took an interest in four of the young Japanese painters -- Nomura, Tsutakawa, Horiuchi and John Matsudaira, a Nisei painter in the area.
en 1996 Yoji Yamaguchi A Student's Guide to Japanese American Genealogy https://books.google.com/books?id=ZiWDdhQbW7AC&pg=PA50&dq=Kinjiro+Matsudaira#v=onepage&q=Kinjiro%20Matsudaira&f=false 50 Greenwood Publishing Group Kinjiro Matsudaira became the first Japanese American mayor in the United States when the city of Edmonston, Maryland, elected him in 1927.
2016, Lim Hock, Phua Kok Khoo and Tan Bernard, 50 Years of Science in Singapore, World Scientific, page 197:
Hew Choy Leung and Paul Matsudaira were the NUS and MIT coordinators for this joint program.
Japanese
Romanization
まつだいら