Mōri Motoharu

Mōri Motoharu (1323–?) was a lord of Aki Province from the Nanboku-chō into the Muromachi period and steward of Yoshida-no-shō. He served Ashikaga Takauji: first named Morochika after Kō no Moroyasu, renamed himself Motoharu when the Kō fell in 1351. In 1341, aged nineteen, he succeeded his great-grandfather Tokichika as clan head, known as Lord Kōriyama.

He fought for the Northern Court in Kyushu while his father raided Aki. After his heir Hirofusa fell in 1385, he secured the succession of his grandson Mitsufusa.