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Mōri Terumoto

Type Figure Region Japan Time 1553–1625 Also known as Mōri Terumoto、Peerless of the West

A daimyō from the late Sengoku to early Edo period, grandson of Mōri Motonari, one of the Five Elders under Toyotomi, nominal Western commander at Se…

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  1. 1595–1600Osaka Castle · SettsuAround Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death he was one of the Five Elders alongside Tokugawa Ieyasu, Maeda Toshiie, Uesugi Kagekatsu, and Ukita Hideie, participating at the center of the regime. The Five Commissioners were separately Ishida Mitsunari, Asano Nagamasa, Masuda Nagamasa, Tsutsui Sadayuki, and Maeda Gen'i; Terumoto was not among them.
  2. 1600Osaka Castle · SettsuAfter Ishida Mitsunagi raised arms, Mōri Terumoto was acclaimed as the Western army's supreme commander, but remained in Osaka and never reached the Sekigahara front; actual military affairs were handled by Mōri Hidemoto, Yoshikawa Hiroie, and others, and after the Western army's defeat he surrendered to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
  3. 1601–1625Hagi Castle · Nagato ProvinceAfter the defeat at Sekigahara his holdings in Aki, Bingo, and elsewhere were reduced to the two provinces of Nagato and Suō, about 370,000 koku; he moved to Hagi Castle, and the Mōri thereby laid the foundation of the Chōshū Domain in the Edo period, which later became an important base of the late-Edo sonnō jōi movement.

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