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Matsushima
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Matsushima (mäts`shĭmä), town (1990 pop. 17,431), Miyagi prefecture, N Honshu, Japan, on Ishinomaki Bay. It is a tourist center for the hundreds of scenic pine-covered islets in the bay. One island is the site of the noted Buddhist temple of Zuiganji (founded 828).


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The river runs directly into Matsushima Bay and then into the Pacific Ocean.
1965) compared Onagawa Bay, where summer mortality was negligible, to Matsushima Bay, where summer mortality events were important, and they concluded that an over-maturation of oocytes in the eutrophic Matsushima Bay leads to "physiological disorder and metabolic disturbance" of oysters.
 
 
 
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