Sue

The Sue were a branch of the Ōuchi family and hereditary retainers in Suō and Nagato. They took their name from Sue village in Suō; by the fifteenth century they held the deputy governorship of Suō and lands at Tomita.

Sue Harukata overthrew his lord Ōuchi Yoshitaka in 1551 and installed Ōuchi Yoshinaga as head of the house. In 1555 Mōri Motonari defeated Harukata at Itsukushima, where Harukata died, breaking the Sue family's power.