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Davis: soldier, missionary, a biography of Rev. Jerome D. Davis, D.D., Lieut-Colonel of volunteers and for thirty-nine years a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Japan
What is the origin of the name Niwa?
Japanese: variously written sometimes with characters used phonetically the most probable meanings are 二羽 ‘two wings’ or 庭 ‘garden’. Two noble families one descended from the Minamoto and the other [...]