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Aoba Shrine
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Founded in 1874 to enshrine Date Masamune as a deity, home to the grand May Aoba Festival procession
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1874
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10 min walk from Kita-Sendai Station
7-1 Aoba-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi
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Shrine
Founded 1874
152 years
Enshrined Deity
武振彦命
伊達政宗公
Overview
A shrine founded in 1874 to enshrine Date Masamune as the deity Takefuruhiko-no-Mikoto. The annual Aoba Festival in May features a grand procession honoring the feudal lord who founded Sendai.
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Aoba Shrine was founded in 1874 (Meiji 7) with the purpose of honoring Date Masamune, the founding lord of the Sendai Domain, against the backdrop of the Meiji government's policy promoting the enshrinement of domain ancestors. Masamune had constructed Sendai Castle in the early Edo period and laid …
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Date Masamune
One-Eyed Dragon
Age 307 at founding (posthumous)
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A shrine founded in 1874 to enshrine Date Masamune as its deity. He is deified as Takefuruhiko-no-Mikoto, a name derived from his posthumous Buddhist title.
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