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The Date clan is a Japanese samurai kin group.
Date Tomomune, founder of the Date clan
Main Gate of Sendai Castle (1938)
Grave of Ōshū Sendai Date clan at Mount Kōya
Date Masamune
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Date Masamune was a Japanese samurai and daimyō during the Azuchi–Momoyama period through the early Edo period. Heir to a long line of powerful feudal lords in the Tōhoku region, he went on to found t
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…the fame or power of the likes of Oda Nobunaga, Uesugi Kenshin, or Toyotomi Hideyoshi, they resisted the invasions of these warlords into the north. Date Masamune (1567–1636) contributed in particular to this effort, consolidating the families of the north into alliances against the major warlords. In 1589…
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Date Masamune Armour
Date Masamune uma-jirushi (right)
Date Masamune (1567–1636) uma-jirushi (left)