Mōri Motonari
A prominent daimyō in the west Chūgoku region of Japan during the Sengoku period of the 16th century · Japan · Lived 1497 to 1571 · aged 74
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Something wrong?Mōri Motonari was a prominent daimyō in the western Chūgoku region of Japan during the Sengoku period of the 16th century. The Mōri clan claimed descent from Ōe no Hiromoto (大江広元), an adviser to Minamoto no Yoritomo. Motonari was called the "Beggar Prince".
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Mōri Motonari's battle standard, housed at the Mōri Museum (毛利博物館蔵)
Full portrait of Motonari
Japan in 1570 (the year before Motonari's death). The Mōri are depicted in orange.
Scroll depicting the invasion by Mōri forces (c. 1855)
The mountaintop where Gassan Toda Castle used to stand
Mōri Motonari's tomb, near the ruins of Yoshida-Kōriyama Castle
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Mōri Motonari was a prominent daimyō in the western Chūgoku region of Japan during the Sengoku period of the 16th century. The Mōri clan claimed descent from Ōe no Hiromoto (大江広元), an adviser to Minamoto no Yoritomo. Motonari was called the "Beggar Prince". He was known as a great strategist who began as a small local warlord (jizamurai) of Aki Province and extended his clan's power to nearly all of the Chūgoku region through war, marriage, adoption and assassination.
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