Maori Yuan rose to the western part of Honshu Island in the Sengoku period of Japan, and the Maori family was originally only a national, but under the leadership of Maori Yuan, the Maori family successively destroyed the Ouchi family and the Nichi family, becoming the most powerful overlord of the Western Kingdom. After the end of the Sengoku period, the Maori family continued as the daimyō of the Edo shogunate until the end of the shogunate and successfully dominated the direction of Japanese history.
Maori yuan on
The ancestor of Mori Motoyasu was Ōe Yoshimitsu, the fourth son of Hiromoto Oe, a founding hero of the Kamakura shogunate, and since Ōe Motomitsu inherited his father's position as the head of the Mori Shogunate in Sagami Province, he used "Maori" as the Miao character. Maori Jiguang has three older brothers, most of whom inherit the strengths of his father Hiromoto Oe and are good at civilian work, while Maori Kimitsu was born in Kanto and has been mixed with Kanto samurai since childhood, naturally contaminated with the characteristics of samurai, and is very fond of martial arts.
In the third year of Sekihisa (1221), when Go-Toba-in temple called on samurai from all over Japan to raise an army against hojo Yoshinori, the governor of kamakura Shogunate, Mori Tokiko's brother Genjinhiro was also drawn in by the in-house and joined the court's side, and then the Kamakura shogunate organized a three-way army of Tokaido, Higashiyama-do, and Hokurikudo. In that year, Maori Tokimitsu was only twenty years old, and he joined the main force of the Shogunate's Western Expeditionary Army, the Tokaido Army, along with Hojo Taishi, Ashikaga Yoshishi, Miura Yoshimura, chiba Yoshitsune, and others. After the war, Maori Kimitsu was given the title of head of the Atsuki Kuni Yoshidaso for his merits, and Ōe Hiromoto also ceded the Echigo Kuni Sahashi Castle to his son.
Hiromoto Oe
In the fourth year of the Reign (1246), the reclusive shogun Fujiwara Raikei conspired with the Hojo clan's famous Etsumitsu to stage a coup d'état to depose the Hojo clan and regain power from hojo shirai, who was born in the Hojo clan. The coup was soon discovered by the Hojo clan, and Fujiwara Raikei was returned to Kyoto. However, Fujiwara Raikei's side near Miura Mitsumura (the younger brother of Miura Yasumura, the governor of the Miura clan), was greatly dissatisfied with the Hojo clan, which also made the Hojo clan determined to attack the Miura clan. During the hojo clan's war with the Miura clan, Maori Tokimitsu was originally on the side of the Hojo clan, but since his wife was the sister of Miura Yasumura, he later joined the Miura clan with troops.
However, the Miura clan was not an opponent of the Hojo clan and was soon defeated, and Maori Kimitsu committed suicide with his sons Maori Hiromitsu, Maori Kinmitsu, Maori Taimitsu, and grandson Maori Kichimaru, while another grandson, Maori Manjuri Maru, was captured. On the other hand, the Mori clan's base area, Sagami Kuni Mori Sho, was also attacked by hojo's imperial family, and most of the remaining Lang dang and relatives were killed in battle, and the Yashiki of Mori Sho was also burned in a fire. At this time, only the fourth son of the Maori clan, Mori Keiguang, survived, and he received Echigo Kuni sahashi from his father, so he did not participate in the battle, but survived.
After the "Hoshi-ji War", because of the operation of Nagai Yasuhide, the nephew of Maori Tsukiko, in the shogunate, the Hojo clan pardoned Mori Keimitsu and blocked the territory of Yoshidaso and Echigo Kuni Sahashiso, but confiscated the Mori sho, the base of the Mori family. In his later years, Mori Keimitsu ceded the territory to his son Moriki and his fourth son, Mori, who, although inheriting the position of chief consul of the Mori family, only acquired the domain of Sahashi Sho Hojo, while Mori Mori took over the territory of Sahashi Sho Minamijo and Anyi Kuniyoshi Yoshidaso, probably because the wife of Mori Shikin was the daughter of Nagasaki Taitsu, a powerful imperial member of the "Tokusei family".
In his later years, Maori lived in seclusion in Kagata Township, Hanoi, and it is rumored that he once taught the art of war to Nanmu Masanari, who was still a child, and taught him martial arts. In 1336, in the third year of Kenmu (1336), the eighty-year-old Maori moved his base from Echigo Tokuni to Yoshidaso, an angi kingdom, where he took root.
At the time of the Ashikaga Clan's military campaign, the Maori clan joined the side of Emperor Go-Daigo, and the sons of the Maori time, Maori Sadahi, and grandson Maori were fighting in Kyoto, but the old yokai Maori saw through the incompetence of the miyakata and believed that samurai politics was the king,So he negotiated peace with the Ashikaga clan and sent his grandson Motoharu Motoharu to join the Ashikaga Army and jumped back to the Ashikaga clan. After the defeat of Emperor Go-Daigo, Nitta Yoshisada took his crown prince into exile in Hokuri, at which point Maori gave up the governor to his grandson Maori Motoharu, and his son Mori Sadahito went into seclusion and returned to live in Yoshidaso. His grandson, Mori Kinheng, fled with Nitta Yoshisada to Hokuriku, and it was not until Motoharu Motoharu of Maori asked the Ashikaga clan for forgiveness of his father that Mori kinhei return to Yoshidaso.
The Maori family in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, like other families, split into two parties that supported the Southern Dynasty and supported the Northern Dynasty, with maori relatives and Maori Yuanchun fathers and sons, respectively, and the father and son took this opportunity to expand their territory while fighting among themselves. After that, Maori Motoharu followed the Kyushu expedition sent by the Muromachi shogunate to fight in Kyushu, and also built Yoshida-gun Yamashiro castle in Yoshida-shogunate as the base of the Maori family.
During the Muromachi period, the Maori clan was originally subordinate to the Guardian Yamana clan of Theo-kuni, and at the outbreak of the Onin Rebellion, the Maori clan's governor, Toyomoto Mori, joined the Toyomoto Mori clan with the guardian Yamana (the second son of Yamana Tsunaga, who was at odds with his father). However, the Maori family soon split, and Maori Toyotomi joined the Western Army after the death of takeda Nobuhito, the governor of the local powerful Takeda family, and joined the Ōnai Masahiro and fought against the old lord Yamanori, Yutomo, while Mori toyomoto's younger brother, the Maori Motoyasu, remained subordinate to the Eastern Army.
Maori genealogy chart
After the death of Maori Toyomoto, his son Mori Hiromoto succeeded to the daimyō and continued to follow the Ouchi family, and by the time of Mori Toyomoto's grandson Mori Kogen, Mori Yukimoto even went to Ryo with the lord Ōuchi Yoshiaki to assist ashikaga Yoshinori, who had been exiled by Hosokawa Masamoto, to return to Kyoto as a shogun. In the eighth year of Nagamasa (1511), Maorimoto participated in the Battle of Funokayama between Hosokawa Takakuni and Ouchi Yoshiyuki against Hosokawa Seikin and Hosokawa Masahito, and it was the Ouchi army under Mori Yukimoto who was extremely brave, and in one fell swoop broke through Hosokawa Masahito's home front and laid the foundation for the victory of the joint battle.
However, during Ouchi Yoshiyuki's stay in Kyoto, An Yiguo became less peaceful. At that time, the subordinate forces of the Ouchi family in the Anyi Kingdom were mainly the Maori family and the Anyi Takeda family, and after the Anyi Takeda family moved to wakasa kingdom, only one clan remained in the Anyi kingdom. With the support of Ōuchi Yoshiyuki, this clan governor Motoharu Takeda, with the support of Ōuchi Yoshihide, became independent from the Clan and established the Anyi Takeda family in the Warring States period, but Takeda Motohiro took advantage of Ouchi Yoshiyuki's time in Beijing to continuously expand his power in Anyi Kingdom, causing Ōuchi Yoshiyuki's dissatisfaction. So, under the orders of Ouchi Yoshiyuki, Maori Yukimoto returned to Ahn Egun with the Maori army and engaged the restless Takeda Motoharu.
Maori Xingyuan
However, in the thirteenth year of Yongzheng (1516), Maori Hiromoto, who had returned to the territory first, suddenly fell ill and died of an acute illness at the age of twenty-five. At this time, Anyiguo had become a battlefield for the Ouchi family and the Nichi family to compete for supremacy, and the death of Mori Kogen gave the Ouchi family a very big blow, which became one of the reasons why Ouchi Yoshiyuki decided to return to the domain from Kyoto.
After the death of Mori Kogen, because Mori Yukimaru, the son of Mori Yukimoto, who inherited the Mori family governor, was only two years old, he took Mori Yukimoto's younger brother Mori Motomoto as the governor of Yukimaru, and Mori Moto began to appear on the stage of history because of this relationship.
Text author: Sanae Hojo
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