Sue

The Sue were a cadet line of the Ōuchi house of Suō, whose ancestors, the immigrant Tatara clan, claimed descent from King Seong of Baekje. Ōuchi Morinaga took the name Migita, and his descendant Hirokata settled at Sue village in Yoshiki district and took the name Sue.

The family rose as hereditary senior retainers of the Ōuchi. Sue Hironaga became shugodai of Nagato in 1401, and under Morimasa the family also gained the post in Suō in 1432. Sue Hirofusa followed Ōuchi Masahiro to the Ōnin War and fell at Shōkoku-ji in Kyoto in 1468.

Takafusa, later called Harukata, turned against his lord Ōuchi Yoshitaka and drove him to suicide in the Tainei-ji incident of 1551, ruling through a puppet lord. Mōri Motonari defeated him at Itsukushima in 1555; Harukata killed himself and his main line perished, though cadet branches survived as Mōri retainers.