Motoyoshi

Motoyoshi lies along the southern Sanriku coast of Mutsu, where peninsulas and islands shelter the deep harbour of Kesennuma. Fishing was practised here by the late sixteenth century, and the sheltered port offered a base close to the rich waters offshore. In the early Edo period the Spanish navigator Sebastián Vizcaíno surveyed the harbour for Date Masamune and praised its anchorage.