A castle town just south of Sendai which was controlled by a retainer of Uesugi Kagekatsu in the late 1500s. Date Masamune and Mogami Yoshiaki laid siege to this castle in the beginning part of the Battle of Sekigahara in the north and successfully captured it.

The town would later be administrated by Date Masamune's vassal, Katakura Kojuurou Kagetsuna, given to him by Masamune in 1602. As lord of the town, Kojuurou redesigned and expanded the roads and sewage and water canals.