There can be generated sea stories here, Hashirimizu. Old Japan, A.D. 100's, Yamato-Takeru Mikoto, he had been to supress Boso Peninsula's, so he sailed from Hashirimizu. But he had a storm in his ship, then his wife, Ototachibana-Himeno-Mikoto, she kicked the bucket to take the place of the life of the sea gods to suppress their anger. So, the sea had been silent and he got on Boso Peninsula.