page_title: Matsuura Takeshirō
section_title: Hokkaidō Heritage
hierarchical_section_title: Matsuura Takeshirō / Hokkaidō Heritage
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 松浦武四郎 歌碑。新十津川町中央公園
context_page_description: 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".
context_section_description: In 2018 a series of sixty-nine stelai inscribed wih Matsuura Takeshirō's poems, markers denoting places he stayed, and other inscriptions and monuments in his honour was jointly designated Hokkaidō Heritage, an initiative aimed at valorization of the island's natural and cultural heritage, as Traces of Matsuura Takeshirō's Exploration of Ezo. These include:
  Atsuma: a stele in Tomisato (富里) erected in 1957 in relation to the hundredth anniversary of his two night stay in the vicinity in Ansei 5 (1858) (Municipal Tangible Cultural Property)
  Bifuka: the site where the name of the Teshio River (from the Ainu for a fishing weir) was recorded in Ansei 4 (1857) (Municipal Historic Site)
  Mashike: the site of his crossing the Nobusha River (信砂川) in Ansei 3 (1856) (Municipal Historic Site)
  Obira: a statue and inscribed poem in Nishin Culture and History Park (にしん文化歴史公園)
  Shari: an inscribed poem in Utoro
  Teshio: a statue and inscribed poem in Kagaminuma Seaside Park (鏡沼海浜公園); a marker of the place he stayed, referred to as Sakokaishi (サコカイシ), on the first night of his exploration of the Teshio River in Ansei 4 (1857), as recorded in his Teshio Diaries; a marker near where Japan National Route 40 crosses the Onoppunai River (雄信内川), commemorating his sleeping out on his second night, when he was plagued by mosquitoes at Onkanranma (オンカンランマ)
  Toyotomi: a marker where he stayed in Wakasanai, near the rest stop Sand Dune Station (砂丘の駅)
caption: Inscribed tanka by Matsuura Takeshirō in Shintotsukawa
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