Matsumai, a seaport of Japan, situated at the south-west extremity of the island of Yesso (Yezo), at the western entrance to the Strait of Tsugaru. Formerly the principal town of the island, it has in recent times been outstripped by its more successful rival Hakodate. Pop. (1894) 34,527.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 92
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