Mōri Terumoto

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**Mōri Terumoto**  (毛利 (もうり)輝元 (てるもと), *****Mōri Terumoto*****? Mōri Terumoto) is a retainer of the Mōri Clan, serving under Mōri Motonari. He serves as a recruitable general since Sengoku Hime 4, and has appeared in Sengoku Hime 5, Sengoku Hime 7.

## Introduction

**Sengoku Hime 4:**
Aki's daimyo, the youngest brother of the Mori family.
Considered to be the successor to the current head of the family, Takamoto, he was rigorously raised by his sister Takakage, but he never bent himself and Takakage regretted his failure in education. There is.
Although he lacks courage, he has the goodness of growing up from the whole body, and he does not hate competing with people.
His mother, Motoki, said, "Don't compete for the world," and may be trying to faithfully embody that word ...

現当主、隆元の後継者と目されており、姉である隆景から厳しく育てられたが、当人は決して自分を曲げずに育ってしまい、教育の失敗を隆景は悔やんでいる。
覇気に欠けるが全身から育ちの良さは漂っており、人と争うことは嫌いと言って憚らない。
母、元就から『天下を競い争うな』と言われ、その言葉を忠実に体現しようとしているのかもしれない……。
【デザイナー：moco】　【演者：芹園みや】

**Sengoku Hime 5:**
Aki's daimyo, the youngest brother of the Mori family. Raised severely by his sisters Motoharu and Takakage, he never bends himself and regrets his education failure. Although he lacks courage, he has the goodness of growing up from the whole body, and he does not hate competing with people. On the other hand, he sometimes surprises others with his core remarks.

デザイナー：mocoＣＶ：西沢広香

**Sengoku Hime 7:**
A gentle and gentle young man.
Although his ability is high, he is not good at fighting and has not been able to demonstrate his talent very much in a turbulent world. He hasn't been able to control Kikkawa Hiroie and Hideaki Kobayakawa, who have strong acquaintances ...

演者:古河職人
心優しき穏やかな青年。
能力は高いのだが、争いごとが苦手で乱世においてはあまりその才能を発揮できていない。アクの強い吉川広家と小早川秀秋を御しきれていない……。

## Historical Information

Mōri Terumoto (毛利 輝元, January 22, 1553 – June 2, 1625) was a Japanese daimyō. The son of Mōri Takamoto, and grandson and successor of the great warlord Mōri Motonari, he fought against Oda Nobunaga but was eventually overcome. He participated in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Korean Campaign (1592) and built Hiroshima Castle, thus essentially founding Hiroshima.

In 1564 at what appears to have been an early manhood ceremony, Kotsumaru took the name Terumoto (Teru coming from the shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru) and assumed command.
The Môri's traditional rival, the Amago clan, had been destroyed in 1566, and Motonari had left instructions that the clan be content with what it had and forego expansionist adventure. To a greater or lesser extent, Terumoto followed his late grandfather's instructions. Aside from skirmishes on Kyushu and gradual penetration further east, the first years of Terumoto's rule passed quietly.
Later in 1570, Mōri Terumoto along with Mori 'Two Rivers' defeated Amago Katsuhisa at Battle of Nunobeyama (Battle of Fubeyama), and forced Amago Katsuhisa fled to the island of Oki.
When Motonari died in 1571, Terumoto inherited an enormous kingdom that stretched from Buzen on Kyushu to the borders of Harima and Bizen, a powerful navy (at the time Japan's finest), and the support of two gifted uncles Kobayakawa Takakage and Kikkawa Motoharu.
Before death, Mori Motonari had declared himself no friend to Nobunaga, and the young Terumoto openly challenged Nobunaga. It happened that the Môri were to be drawn into war over the Ishiyama Hongan-ji War, a religious stronghold in Settsu, Nobunaga had been besieging since 1570.
Terumoto turned to the vaunted Môri navy. In 1576, First Battle of Kizugawaguchi Nobunaga's 'admiral', Kuki Yoshitaka, had cut the Honganji's sea-lanes and sat in blockade off the coast. Terumoto ordered his fleet, commanded by Murakami Takeyoshi, to make for the waters off Settsu and, once there, the navy inflicted an embarrassing defeat on Kuki and opened the Honganji's supply lines.
In 1578 Hideyoshi captured Kozuki Castle in Harima and gave it to Amago Katsuhisa, who, supported by the famed Yamanaka Shikanosuke, hoped to restore the defunct Amago clan to power in Izumo. Perhaps goaded by the mere name of the new defender of Kozuki as much as anything else, Terumoto sent his uncles to laid Siege of Kōzuki Castle. This they did, and both Katsuhisa and Shikanosuke were killed. Later in 1578, Second Battle of Kizugawaguchi, Kûki Yoshitaka defeat Takeyoshi and drove the Môri away. A further attempt by the Môri to break the blockade the following year was turned back, and in 1580 the Honganji surrendered.
After Hongan-ji surrender, this allowed Nobunaga to concentrate on the Môri and he sent two sizable contingents westward into the Chugoku region. Hashiba Hideyoshi was to march along the southern portion of the arm (the Sanyodo) while Akechi Mitsuhide moved into the upper provinces (the Sanindo).
By 1582 a Môri defeat seemed inevitable. Hideyoshi had forced his way into Bitchu province and laid siege to Takamatsu Castle. Shimizu Muneharu (a former Mimura retainer) defended Takamatsu stoutly, but its loss would all but open the way into Bingo and Aki, the Môri homeland. Hideyoshi knew that Takamatsu would be a tough nut to crack and that heavy losses would only benefit the Môri, so he resorted to a stratagem. Diverting the waters of a nearby river, he flooded the castle grounds, making Takamatsu a soggy island. By now Terumoto had brought up a relief force, but hesitated to attack Hideyoshi directly. Shimizu, for his part, responded to an offer by Hideyoshi that would spare the lives of his men, and committed suicide after ordering his men to surrender.

**Lord(s):**

**Father:**Mōri Takamoto (毛利隆元, 1523–1563)

**Mother:**Ozaki no Tsubone (尾崎局, 1527–1572), daughter of Naitō Okimori (内藤興盛).

**Sibling(s):**輝元、徳鶴丸、津和野局（吉見広頼室）

**Spouse(s):**正室：南の大方（宍戸隆家の娘）、側室：二の丸殿（児玉元良の娘）、他

**Children:**秀就、竹姫（吉川広正正室）、就隆

**Adopted Children:**秀元、古満姫（宍戸元秀女、小早川秀秋・准尊室）、羽柴秀勝室（内藤元種女）