Byakkotai Graves, Iimori-yama 白虎隊十九士の墓(飯盛山)
At sixteen or seventeen they killed themselves believing the castle had fallen: it had not yet fallen.
A memorial hill in Aizuwakamatsu linked to the ritual suicide of a Byakkotai unit during the Boshin War, with the graves of the nineteen who died and of other fighters from the Aizu domain.
Fukushima
Aizu-Wakamatsu