Tokomaru:
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Tokomaru:
Toko=staff, or support; maru=shade, shelter, shield, protected. A Polynesian name originally, the name of one of the ancestral sailing canoes from Tahiti and other Eastern Pacific Islands. From the crew of this canoe which landed on the North Taranaki coast, many present-day people are descended. There is a Toko Maru in the Japanese language, one of many surface resemblances between that language and Maori.



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