Few places on this recent journey conjured up so much raw feeling as Miyagi Prefecture did, and Matsushima Bay in particular. It was an area devastated by the 3/11 tsunami, which made it an infamous land of sorrows. First impressions coupled with the fact that our host and old friend, Miku, had her own stories of the deadly time when seawater plowed its way inland destroying life and leaving an unwanted legacy in this eastern seaboard, made this whole arrival something compel