Photos from Zuihouden
Sent a post from Zuihouden earlier from the iPhone. Here are some other photos I took at and around the Zuihouden area. Zuihouden (瑞鳳殿), Kansenden (感仙殿, captured above) and Zenoden (善応殿) are the mausoleums of the first (Masamune), second (Tadamune) and third (Tsunamune) feudal lords of the Date (pronounced DA-TEH) clan. Did I get right? Lots of graves in the pictures. ^^. Can you find the photo of the dragon with the “fire hydrant” sign in the background? I quite like that one.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention earlier, there’s a small museum filled with artifacts that were excavated after the fire (that burned down the original mausoleums in WW2), and before the various re-constructions. It’s really interesting. They found remains of the various lords. For Masamune especially, they found his hair samples!!! That means that they have a sample of his DNA right? Someone help me out here. ^^. Based on what they found, they created a lifelike replica of him. I couldn’t take a photo inside the museum, but you’ll be able to see what he looked like. He’s not a tall fellow, 159cm. Besides the remains and human skulls etc. on display, there were also some treasure that was buried with him and his son and grandson. Old katanas, old rusted katanas but still pretty well preserved considering the 400 odd years of being underground. This is a place you would like to visit when in Sendai.
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August 25th, 2008 at 11:17 am
It looks beautiful, fitting the image of traditional Japan.
I think that having hair samples would qualify as DNA.. isn’t that bad though?
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