Blue and green lion carvings on a pillar of the Zuihoden in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. This is the mausoleum of Date Masamune, founder of the Sendai Domain and one of the most powerful daimyo (feudal lords) of Edo period Japan. Due to a missing eye he received the name one-eyed dragon (dokuganryū).
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