Mōri clan
| Mōri clan 毛利氏 | |
|---|---|
Mōri clan (mon) | |
| Home province | Sagami Aki |
| Parent house | Imperial House of Japan Ōe clan (大江氏) |
| Titles | various |
| Founder | Mōri Suemitsu (毛利季光) |
| Final ruler | Mōri Takachika (毛利敬親) |
| Current head | Mōri Motohide (毛利元栄) |
| Founding year | 13th century (first half) |
| Dissolution | still extant |
| Ruled until | 1868, after the Boshin War and during the (Meiji Restoration), Mōri Takachika is the first daimyō to hand over his lands to Emperor Meiji. |
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The Mōri clan (毛利氏, Mōri-shi; Japanese pronunciation: [moꜜː.ɾʲi, moː.ɾʲiꜜ.ɕi]) was a Japanese samurai clan descended from Ōe no Hiromoto. Ōe no Hiromoto was descended from the Fujiwara clan. The family's most illustrious member, Mōri Motonari, greatly expanded the clan's power in Aki Province. During the Edo period his descendants became daimyō of the Chōshū Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. After the Meiji Restoration with the abolition of the han system and daimyō, the Mōri clan became part of the new nobility.