Etymology and distribution of 荒船.

Arafune 【荒船】^{レベル4
About 700}  The Japanese surnames etymology dictionary.

Kagoshima-ken , Miyazaki-ken .

① Kagoshima-ken Shibushi -shi Shibushi-machi Zakuri birthplace. A place name with a record since the Muromachi period.

② Kagoshima-ken Kirishima-shi Makizonomachi Yukidobata Yasuraku birthplace. There was a comfortable gate of the gate division system in the Edo period in the same place.

③ Creation . From the easing gate of the gate division system that was in the Edo period. An example of the location of the gate. Kagoshima-ken Hioki-shi Iju-in town Shimokuchiguchi, Miyazaki-ken Miyazaki-shi Takaoka cho Shimokunaga. The name of the gate is from the favorites of "cheap" and "easy".