岸田

岸田 (Kishida) is a Japanese surname most associated in current news with 岸田文雄 (Kishida Fumio, b. 1957), who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2021 to 2024. In Japanese the characters mean 'shore' + 'rice paddy' — many Japanese surnames are transparent landscape compounds.

memory

Like 恩田 (Onda), 岸田 ends in 田 (paddy field). When you see XX田 in news contexts, it's almost always a Japanese surname read in Sino-Japanese on'yomi.