HAKODATE  , a See also:

• TOWN

town on the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south of the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of See also:

• YEZO

Yezo, See also:

• JAPAN

Japan, for many years regarded as the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the island until See also:

• SAPPORO

Sapporo was officially raised to that See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank . Pop . (1903) 84,i46 . Ita position, as has been frequently remarked, is not unlike that of See also:

• GIBRALTAR

Gibraltar, as the town is built along the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north-western See also:

• BASE

base of a rocky promontory (1157 ft. in height) which forms the eastern boundary of a spacious See also:

• BAY

bay, and is See also:

• UNITED

united to the mainland by a narrow sandy See also:

• ISTHMUS (Gr.io0pbs, neck)

isthmus . The See also:

• SUMMIT

summit of the See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock, called the See also:

• PEAK, THE

Peak, is crowned by a fort . Hakodate is one of the ports originally opened to See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade . The Bay of Hakodate, an inlet of Tsugaru Strait, is completely See also:

• LAND

land-locked, easy of See also:

• ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

access and spacious, with deep See also:

• WATER

water almost up to the See also:

• SHORE

shore, and See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good holding-ground . The Russians formerly used Hakodate as a See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter See also:

• PORT

port . The See also:

• STAPLE

staple exports are beans, See also:

• PULSE

pulse and peas, marine products, See also:

• SULPHUR

sulphur, furs and See also:

• TIMBER

timber; the staple imports, comestibles (especially salted See also:

• FISH (O. Eng. fist, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch visch, Ger. Fisch, Goth. fisks, cognate with the Lat. piscis)
• FISH, HAMILTON (1808-1893)

fish), kerosene and oil-cake . The town is not situated so as to profit largely by the development of the resources of Yezo, and as a port of foreign trade its out-look is indifferent . Frequent steamers connect Hakodate and See also:

• YOKOHAMA

Yokohama and other ports, and there is daily communication with Aomori, 56 m. distant, whence there is See also:

• RAIL

rail-connexion with See also:

• TOKYO (or TOKIO, formerly called Yedo)

Tokyo . Hakodate was opened to See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce in 1854 .

In the See also:

• CIVIL

civil See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war of 1868 the town was taken by the See also:

• REBEL, JOHANN PETER (176o-1826)

rebel See also:

• FLEET

fleet, but it was recovered by the See also:

• MIKADO (Japanese for " exalted gate ")

mikado in 1869 .