Castle Sinanju

Castle Sinanju is the name Chiun gives to a Massachusetts home shared with Remo. The novels treat the residence as a home rather than a medieval fortress: one account places it in North Quincy, and another shows Remo returning to it with Chiun.

Its architecture is not consistent across the retained descriptions. In one novel, Remo sees a fieldstone building; another calls the North Quincy residence a former church converted into a condominium. A later recollection again describes an old renovated church in Boston. The passages do not explain whether these are changed descriptions, successive homes or distinct dwellings given the same name, so their details should remain attached to their respective stories.

A later story depicts Castle Sinanju burning to the ground and Chiun watching the home consumed. Remo believes that an attacker he had spared led the arsonists there; Sweet, the lawyer involved in the investigation, says the men acted on their own when they burned the house. Another account has Chiun recall a Boston church home burned by mobsters, while a later recollection speaks of a “true castle” destroyed by fire. The novels do not settle how each description maps onto the others, and the story preserves both Remo’s guilt and the conflicting explanation of the fire.