Notsuke

Notsuke is a long, narrow sand spit on the eastern coast of Ezo, enclosing a shallow bay opposite Kunashiri. Ainu communities lived in this coastal country, where salmon, trout and herring later drew Japanese fishing ventures. In 1812 the merchant Takadaya Kahei was seized in the Notsuke Strait by officers of the Russian ship Diana, an episode in the dispute that followed the capture of the Russian captain Golovnin on Kunashiri.