Shiroishi Castle

Shiroishi Castle is a flatland-style Japanese castle in what's now the metropolis of Shiroishi, Miyagi. During the Edo length, it changed into the citadel of the Katakura extended family, who have been hereditary retainers of the Date extended family of Sendai Domain. During the Boshin War, it was additionally temporarily the headquarters of the Ouetsu Reppan Domei. The citadel was also regarded with the aid of the call of Masuda Castle. The castle changed into the assembly place for the delegates of the northern domains in early 1868, during the Boshin War.

It then became the headquarters of the Ouetsu Reppan Domei. Following the Meiji Restoration, it became in brief positioned within the care of the Nanbu extended family previously of Morioka Domain, who have been dispossessed of their original holdings by way of the brand new Meiji government and assigned a brand new domain carved out of the southern portion of Sendai Domain. The Katakura clan and its retainers were resettled in Hokkaido. The fortress was demolished in 1875.