Etymology and distribution of 太嶋.

Ooshima 【太嶋】^{レベル3
About 130}  The Japanese surnames etymology dictionary.

Kumamoto-ken Kumamoto-shi . A variant of 男沢 . 男沢 Otokozawa reference.

Tajima 【太嶋】^{レベル3
About 130}  The Japanese surnames etymology dictionary.

Ooita-ken , Miyazaki-ken , Kagoshima-ken .

① Ooita-ken Ooita-shi Origin of Marugameki Tokumaru and Shimonomaru. Place name with a record since the North / South morning era. Ehime-ken Iyo-gun Masaki-chou Tokumaru is a place name with a record since the North-South morning era.

② Fukui-ken Awara-shi Distributed in the middle. There is a table Tokumaru on a small scale in the same place. There is a record in Fukui-ken Sakai-shi (old: estuary) from 1004 to 1012 (Yorihiro year).

③ Creation . From the Tokumaru gateon of the gate division system that was in the Edo period. An example of the location of the gate. Kagoshima-ken Kirishima-shi Hayato-cho Kawa River, Kagoshima-ken Kanoya-shi Teru Kita - machi Suwa - bara, Miyazaki-ken Miyazaki-shi Takaoka cho Kamikuraga - cho. Kagoshima-ken Kanoya-shi Tokumaru Housing at Kurihara- cho Nuri. The name of the gate and the name of the mansion house are from the village "virtue" and the round land.

※ Ooita-ken Bungotakada-shi Originated from Tokumaru, a small figure of eyes. It was in the Sengoku period near the same place.