How to use Hakodate in a sentence

Hakodate is one of the ports originally opened to foreign trade.

The Bay of Hakodate, an inlet of Tsugaru Strait, is completely land-locked, easy of access and spacious, with deep water almost up to the shore, and good holding-ground.

Frequent steamers connect Hakodate and Yokohama and other ports, and there is daily communication with Aomori, 56 m.

Hakodate was opened to American commerce in 18J4.

Hakodate do 28

The salient episode of his career was an attempt to establish a republic at Hakodate.

Finding himself in command of a squadron which represented practically the whole of Japan's naval forces, he refused to acquiesce in the deposition of the Shogun, his liege lord, and, steaming off to Yezo (1867), proclaimed a republic and fortified Hakodate.

The newly organized government of the empire, however, instead of inflicting the death penalty on him and his principal followers, as would have been the inevitable sequel of such a drama in previous times, punished them with imprisonment only, and four years after the Hakodate episode, Enomoto received an important post in Hokkaido, the very scene of his wild attempt.