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Date Masamune
Date Masamune was a daimyo of north-eastern Japan, known as the 'one-eyed dragon'. He expanded the Date lands in Mutsu but submitted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1590 and later sided with Tokugawa Ieyasu. He founded the city of Sendai and its domain, one of the largest in Tokugawa Japan, and sent an embassy to Spain and Rome in 1613.
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