Sendai castle was the chief residence of the [[Date clan]] lords of [[Sendai han]], and the chief administrative center of that domain.
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The castle suffered a fire in [[1855]]/7 which destroyed the ancestral mausoleum of the Date clan, a structure known as the In'enden.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 90.</ref>