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Definition of Sapporo
1. Noun. A commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido.
Group relationships: Ezo, Hokkaido, Yezo, Japan, Nihon, Nippon
Definition of Sapporo
1. Proper noun. a capital city of Hokkaido, Japan ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sapporo
Literary usage of Sapporo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Terry's Japanese Empire by Thomas Philip Terry (1914)
"This practically circular route will enable the hurried traveler to get a cursory
view of Sapporo, the capital city; the interior of the island; ..."
2. A West-Pointer in the Land of the Mikado by Laura De Lany Garst (1913)
"The best place in Japan for a broken-down worker is Sapporo, the capital city of
the northern island of Yezo,—which is called Hokkaido, or " Northern Sea ..."
3. Japan Day by Day, 1877, 1878-79, 1882-83 by Edward Sylvester Morse (1917)
"... it looked like home in fact, and on inquiry I found it was really the capitol
building of Yezo. The streets of Sapporo are wide and cross one another at ..."
4. A Ribbon of Iron by Annette M. B. Meakin (1901)
"Chapter XXI ON A CARGO BOAT—FALLEN FROM THE SKY—Sapporo JLJ OTEL Moscow was full
of 'people waiting like ourselves for a steamer to Nagasaki, the Japanese ..."
5. Recent Christian Progress: Studies in Christian Thought and Work During the by Lewis Bayles Paton, Hartford Theological Seminary (1909)
"GEORGE MILLER ROWLAND, DD Sapporo, JAPAN OUR topic is broader than the progress
of Christian missions technically so called. It includes rather all God's ..."
6. The Far East Revisited: Essays on Political, Commercial, Social, and General by A. Gorton Angier (1908)
"Colonial Experiments—Agricultural Wealth—Fisheries—Minerals— Hakodate—Growth of
Otaru—The Capital, Sapporo—Muroran—Its Projected Iron and Steelworks. ..."
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