Matsuura Takeshirō was a Japanese explorer, cartographer, writer, painter, priest, and antiquarian. During the late Edo period and Bakumatsu he journeyed six times to Ezo, including to Sakhalin and the Kuriles. In the early Meiji period he was an official in the Hokkaidō Development Commission.
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Map of Hokkaidō, Sakhalin, and the Kuriles by Matsuura Takeshirō, issued in woodblock format in 1869 by the Hokkaidō Development Commission (Hokkaido University Library)
From Ezo Manga (1859); through works such as this and his later series of travelogues, Matsuura Takeshirō brought an understanding of Ezo and of the Ainu to a wider readership![View of Hakodate Port from his Diary of the First Voyage to Ezo (1850) (Hakodate City Central Library) (Municipal Tangible Cultural Property)[15]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/General_View_of_Hakodate_Port_from_Ezo_Nisshi_vol3_by_Matsuura_Takeshiro_%28Hakodate_City_Central_Library%29.jpg/1280px-General_View_of_Hakodate_Port_from_Ezo_Nisshi_vol3_by_Matsuura_Takeshiro_%28Hakodate_City_Central_Library%29.jpg)
View of Hakodate Port from his Diary of the First Voyage to Ezo (1850) (Hakodate City Central Library) (Municipal Tangible Cultural Property)[15]
Inscribed tanka by Matsuura Takeshirō in Shintotsukawa
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Matsuura Takeshirō was a Japanese explorer, cartographer, writer, painter, priest, and antiquarian. During the late Edo period and Bakumatsu he journeyed six times to Ezo, including to Sakhalin and the Kuriles. In the early Meiji period he was an official in the Hokkaidō Development Commission. Instrumental in the naming of the island and many of its places, he is sometimes referred to as the "godparent of Hokkaidō".
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