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Yonezawa, Yamagata
Yonezawa Castle
米沢城
The grounds of the shrine to Uesugi Kenshin are also the main enclosure of the castle where Date Masamune was born.
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Naoe Kanetsugu
直江兼続
Uesugi Kagekatsu's chief retainer, who served him from childhood. When the Uesugi moved to Yonezawa, he quickly improved the main and second enclosures, added a third, and laid out samurai and merchant quarters and water channels, creating the framework of the castle town.
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To protect farms and villages from floods on the Matsukawa River, he built embankments about 10 km long, part of which survives as the Naoe stone embankment. His letter to Tokugawa Ieyasu, known as the Naoe-jo, is said to have provoked Ieyasu's campaign against Aizu.
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chief retainer who laid out the castle and townRecord source: article
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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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Rebuilt / expandedRecord source: wikipedia
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- 1米沢の偉人 直江兼続(米沢観光NAVI)Checked:
- 2直江兼続(補助資料・没年)(Wikipedia日本語版)Checked: