Sendai castle

• Japanese:仙台城(Sendai-jou)
• Type:Flatland-Mountain
• Founder:Date Masamune
• Year:1610
• Demolished:1871
• Burnt:1883,1945
• Reconstructed:1962(Yagura)
• Location:Mutsu province

Sendai castle was the chief residence of the Date clan lords of Sendai han, and the chief administrative center of that domain.

The castle suffered a fire in 1855/7 which destroyed the ancestral mausoleum of the Date clan, a structure known as the In'enden.

Link

• Sendai castle

References

• Nihon no Meijo Kojo Jiten
• Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 90.