Mōri

The Mōri were a samurai family from Sagami. Their head in 1337 was Tokichika; his descendants established themselves in Aki.

Mōri Motonari expanded from Yoshida-Kōriyama Castle in the sixteenth century, defeating the Ōuchi and Amago. In 1571 the Mōri fleet repelled an Oda attack on its trade with the Ikkō-ikki. His grandson Terumoto nominally led the defeated western army at Sekigahara in 1600. The family lost four provinces, moved from Hiroshima to Hagi and ruled Suō and Nagato as Chōshū Domain.