Mishima Island, Yamaguchi

Mishima

Native name: Japanese: 見島
Utsu harbour
Mishima Island is at the top left of the map
Geography
Location	Sea of Japan
Coordinates	34°46′N 131°08′E / 34.77°N 131.14°E / 34.77; 131.14
Archipelago	Hagi Archipelago
Area	7.73 km2 (2.98 sq mi)
Administration
Japan
Yamaguchi Prefecture
Demographics
Population	829
Ethnic groups	Japanese

Mishima, Japanese: 見島, is an island in the Hagi Archipelago, in Yamaguchi Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of south-western Honshu, Japan. It lies in the Sea of Japan, approximately 44 km from Hagi. It has a surface area of approximately 7.73 km², and a population of 829 in 458 households.

The Battle of Tsushima between Russian and Japanese forces took place near the island of Mishima on 27–28 May 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War. Nikolai Nebogatov surrendered to the Japanese on 28 May, and his remaining ships were taken. One of these, the Admiral Seniavin, was renamed Mishima when commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy.

The island is home to the rare and critically-endangered Mishima breed of Japanese native cattle, which was declared a Japanese National Treasure in 1928, and is one of two remaining breeds of Japanese native cattle – the other being the Kuchinoshima breed on Kuchinoshima island in the Tokara Islands.

The island is the source of Mishima clay, a dark red basaltic clay high in iron, with low plasticity, which was one of the three types of clay used to make Hagi ware.