Sendai castle
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- 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.[1]
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References
- ↑ Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 90.
