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Yamagata, Yamagata
Yamagata Castle
山形城
When a film needed the gate of Edo Castle, it was Yamagata Castle's Ninomaru East Otemon Gate that played the part.
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Mogami Yoshiaki
最上義光
The 11th head of the Mogami family and first lord of the Yamagata domain. He built the castle on which today's Yamagata Castle is based, along with a castle town of merchant and craft districts. After holding off the Uesugi army in the Keicho Dewa campaign of 1600, he became a daimyo with 570,000 koku.
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He was close in age to Tokugawa Ieyasu and is said to have got on well with him, pleasing him with gifts of hawks and fine horses. Date Masamune was his nephew, the son of his sister Yoshihime. The two were sometimes rivals, but in the 1600 campaign Masamune's reinforcements helped him recover.
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11th Mogami head who built the castle's basic formRecord source: article
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Yamagata, Yamagata
Yamagata Castle
山形城
When a film needed the gate of Edo Castle, it was Yamagata Castle's Ninomaru East Otemon Gate that played the part.
Japan's 100 Fine Castles No. 10CastleFlatland
BuiltRecord source: jokaku
In-depth article
Yamagata, Yamagata
Yamagata Castle
山形城
When a film needed the gate of Edo Castle, it was Yamagata Castle's Ninomaru East Otemon Gate that played the part.
Japan's 100 Fine Castles No. 10CastleFlatland
Rebuilt / expandedRecord source: wikipedia
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Tsuruoka, Yamagata
Tsurugaoka Castle
鶴ヶ岡城
Every castle building was torn down, yet on the site of the main enclosure stands a shrine that local people built themselves out of devotion to their former lords, the Sakai family.
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- 1山形城と歴代の城主(国指定史跡 山形城)Checked:
- 2霞城公園(国指定史跡山形城跡)についてChecked: