Mōri clan

Mōri clan毛利氏200x200pxMōri clan (mon)Home provinceSagamiAkiParent house15x15px Imperial House of Japan15x15px Ōe clan (大江氏)TitlesvariousFounderMōri Suemitsu (毛利季光)Final rulerMōri Takachika (毛利敬親)Current headMōri Motoyoshi (毛利元敬)Founding year13th century (first half)Dissolutionstill extantRuled until1868, after the Boshin War and during the (Meiji Restoration), Mōri Takachika is the first daimyō to hand over his lands to Emperor Meiji.
The Mōri clan was a group of Japanese samurai that originated from Ōe no Hiromoto, who was a descendant of the Fujiwara clan. One of their most famous members, Mōri Motonari, greatly increased the clan's influence in Aki Province. During the Edo period, Motonari's descendants became daimyō (feudal lords) of the Chōshū Domain under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate. However, after the Meiji Restoration, which abolished the han system and daimyō, the Mōri clan became part of the new nobility.

 Related pages 

 Ōe no Hiromoto
 Sagami Province
 Aki Province
 Hiroshima Domain
 Hiroshima Castle
 Chōshū Domain
 Ōuchi clan
 Amago clan
 Kobayakawa clan
 Kikkawa clan
 Hayashi Narinaga

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