People・Hokkaido
Matsuura TakeshiroMatsuura Takeshiro
Also known as: 松浦武四郎
A late-Edo explorer who walked and surveyed Ezo again and again. The form he proposed at the Meiji renaming, 北加伊道, underlies the present name of the region, its middle character 'kai' said to derive from the Ainu.
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