History of the Mori Clan

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This month it was voted that we will be diving into the history of the Mori clan, the famous family who would come to dominate western Honshu throughout the Sengoku Jidai!
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[@wadepsilon01]

Shimazu & Mōri ''We lost the Battle of Sekigahara, but defeated the Tokugawa Shogunate about 260 years later!!''

[@itsrye8001]

with foreign assistance.

[@wadepsilon01]

France is involved in the Tokugawa Shogunate, and Britain is involved in the new government. The conflict at the end of the Edo period also includes elements of proxy wars between foreign countries. United States has not intervened in this. Because of the effects of the Civil War

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

@@wadepsilon01 yeah, after Abraham Lincoln 'of' the Abe clan got honnoji'd by James Wilkes Akechi Also urggh shit it's the hundred years war all over again (France vs UK), with anime adaptation

[@andrewryan4417]

@@wadepsilon01 Didn't America intervene at the end of the Boshin War, recognizing the Republic of Ezo and supplying them with arms and ammunition? Not that it helped but it still happened.

[@shako4907]

Don't forget the Yamauchi, the spiritual successors of the Chosokabe making the alliance possible😊

[@mikotagayuna8494]

It is said that the Mori taught their children to sleep with their feet pointed east as an insult to the victors of Sekigahara. It became tradition in Chosho where the Mori lived, to open each new year with a ceremonial exchange asking "Has the time come to begin the subjugation of the Tokugawa?" to which one would reply "No, it is not yet time." More than 250 years later the time finally did come and the rebellion that overturned the shogunate was led in part by Chosho.

[@mrnice7570]

Saigo Takamori

[@nicholasgutierrez9940]

Yup. Very based and Toyotomi-pilled

[@tetsu1000]

I did a quick search and it seems there are still Mori descendants. Mori Akihiko: MMA fighter, descendant of Motonari Kikkawa Kōji: musician, descendant of Kikkawa Motoharu, second son of Motonari Kobayakawa Takaharu: car engineer, descendant of Mori Motonori, the last daimyo of Choshu clan

[@dothetwist298]

Are you sure their last name is 毛利, not 森？

[@tetsu1000]

@@dothetwist298 of course, they are two different clans. google their name and they are 毛利

[@jkim6200]

@@dothetwist298 毛利 元就 Mōri Motonari

[@johnmori6516]

That isn’t last name:)

[@ShyBlueWaffle]

My uncle in law is Motonari's 21st nephew and also a descendant of Kikkawa Motoharu. He currently resides in the Philippines.

[@FinnishDragon]

Telling the history of the Mori clan just before the battle of Sekigahara is a brilliant idea because Mori vassals played very important role in that battle.

[@shirowolfanimator]

(kikkawa hiroie)

[@mrnice7570]

Araki Murashige

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

There are about 432,000 people with a family name "Mori" in Japan. It's the 22nd most common family name. About 4.8% of the Moris are said to be related to the Mori clan.

[@thedragonofechigo7878]

So of the 432 000 people who have the family name of "Mori" in Japan Only 4. 8% are said to be related to the Aki Mori of the Chugoku region, that is quite a lot of people.

[@palemoon1904]

@The Dragon of Echigo it’s 森　Mori, not this clan 毛利 Mouri. The number of people who own the surname Mouri are 32,000.

[@ahmadnapoleon5281]

it's like 織田信長 Oda Nobunaga and 尾田英一郎 Oda Ei'ichirō

[@palemoon1904]

@Ram Not at all. You need to be fluent on Japanese to understand the difference.

[@ahmadnapoleon5281]

@@palemoon1904 Is Ei'ichiro Oda descendant from the famous Oda clan or no?

[@thewildformosanformosan]

Mōri Motonari was one hell of a leader during the Sengoku period

[@Chris_MarMar]

I honestly think he could have beaten Nobunaga in battle.

[@michaelbandada9887]

One arrow can break easily but three arrows placed together cannot be broken easily That is the Parable of Three Arrows

[@Dfathurr]

something i found a bit interesting that, during Sengoku Jidai, Mori Clan was quite known for its naval prowess (notably during Battle of Kizugawaguchi). However, Mori led Choshu domain, would dominated Japanese Imperial Army (since Yamagata Aritomo and Omura Masujiro came from Choshu) and its reversal also happen to ther fellow counterpart. Shimazu clan of Satsuma domain

[@thejohnny0018]

My grandmother came from the Mori clan in Japan. (It was an upper class samurai family) 🇯🇵 She married my grandfather who was in the US Navy in the 1950s. He was stationed at a base in Iwakuni Japan where my grandmother was working in a shop on the base. They eventually married, had children, and traveled to islands in the Caribbean and the pacific( my grandfather was in the navy so he was stationed in many places) but eventually settled down in Nahant Massachusetts where my mother, aunt and uncle was raised. My grandfather and grandmother lived in Nahant for the rest of their lives.

[@anandakang]

I had the great privilege of visiting Hiroshima and Hiroshima Castle last year. A truly magnificent reconstruction, and the firearm exhibit they had inside was quite fascinating. The view from the top was splendid as well.

[@haydenmetheny8119]

A clan that deserves more attention. Excellent video as always! (Can't wait for the Princess Mononoke video ;D)

[@pattiegensteiner5174]

I live in Hofu Yamaguchi and enjoy visiting Mouri Gardens and House quite often. Great history!

[@itsrye8001]

The famous animé character, Kenshin Himura, was a "Choshu soldier".

[@radhiteaji631]

Himura is inspired by Kawakami Gensai, one of Ishin shishi four hitokiri (assassins) during bakumatsu era. he's an assassin, not a soldier.

[@itsrye8001]

@@radhiteaji631 In the animé, he was described as, again, a "Choshu soldier".

[@mastertadakatsu]

Whenever I play Nobunaga's Ambition I follow a simple rule. If I play in the East, I ally with the Hojo. If I play in Central Japan, I ally with the Oda. If I play in the West, I ally with the Mori.

[@thedragonofechigo7878]

This is what I've been waiting for here because this clan is definitely one I've studied quite well and their history is interesting. Not to mention there are Mori clans in Owari and Echigo. Been waiting for this for a long time.

[@BanjinYukyuzan]

I visited Hiroshima-Castle a few years ago. A truly beautiful castle and great museum!

[@xXjOmAmMaXx]

Hiroshima Castle is beautiful - well worth the visit. Great video as always dude!

[@HistoriaenCeluloide]

It's so great that you're talking about the other clans, perhaps you could make a video about the 'kazoku' system, but during the Meiji Era and its institutions modeled after the victorian traditions adopted by Japan, like the Peers' Club in Tokyo 🧐

[@hanchiman]

In the movie RAN, the youngest son Saburo kinda dispelled the 3 Arrow unity by forcefully break the three arrow with his knee, and sadly the three brothers really did turn on each other at the end due to one woman who had a grudge

[@Seraphil1]

I appreciate this video. My maternal-side family, the Naito, were long-time vassals of the Mori, and we had our own castle near Hiroshima. It's now a local garden.

[@TheMercian13]

Hiroshima Castle is a stunning one, I also visited it in 2019. The Mori are amazing.

[@realrhetoric]

I live in Hiroshima and went to see the ruins of the original Mori castle in Akitakata last month.

[@Wakizaka_Yasuharu]

I'm real excited for the Uesugi, and also for the Hosokawa, especially for the Boshin War part, because I just started playing Total War: Fall of the Samurai. Mori Motonari was lucky to win at the battle of Arita-Nakaide, because Takeda Motoshige had headed into battle and got shot by an arrow. What would've happened if he lost? I'll probably never know.

[@noah.whitehorn.051]

Would love to see the Uesugi next. An old family still prominent in Japan, and Kenshin is such an interesting and controversial figure

[@GlassJoe1337]

Thank you for the upload

[@samwill7259]

Besides, if you're walking up to a random japanese person and going directly into a conversation that involved samurai related words you ALREADY look pretty dumb just as a baseline, so no worries on pronunciation.

[@EarlofMcCleaster]

Could you do the Maeda family please

[@hizurumegumi5727]

thank you for doing this I am so happy you did a video about my Samurai clan!!! (I am Part Japanese and related to the Mori clan!)

[@BigBrotherBrody]

I doubt it a bit but interesting.

[@mrnice7570]

About 4.8 percent of the people surnamed Mori are direct relations of the mori clan , the other 95.2 percent are not

[@-RONNIE]

Another good video of quality information thank you for sharing it with us 👍🏻

[@eldrah1182]

This is very cool since i carry Mori as my last name. Not sure if i'm a descendant of the clan but i find it very interesting as many japanese people ages ago moved to Peru where my family is from. Wish i knew a way of finding out if i truly am a descendant or not.

[@BioluminescentTree]

I can't believe he made a video on the Grindr clan

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

The what???

[@rafadzikowiecki9225]

Love your work. Keep doing

[@muhammadfarhanfadillah32]

Can you do a review of anime Heike Monogatari ( The Heike Story ) from Science Saru ?

[@Paleo_P1anet]

Imagawa? Maybe the Minamoto? Or maybe an obscure one like the Asakura? Idk I’m just throwing suggestions 😅

[@sengokusanada2690]

Awesome video!!!! 😍

[@たんたかたん-g1v]

The Mori family crest are "one & three stars". One means No1. The three stars represent the three stars of Orion. The three stars of Orion are said to be the "Shogun Stars" in the Oriental constellation, and are said to attract victory in battle.

[@LibertarianTerriermon]

And Me Waiting For the History of the Uesugi like: 💀💀💀💀

[@gofar5185]

thank you for reminding the mori clan of japan...

[@a84c1]

Just here patently waiting for the video of the battle of sekigahara.

[@Jan4805]

Can you do Mogami Clan

[@KyoushaPumpItUp]

One of the clan's descendants is actually famous on youtube. Her name's Mori Calliope.

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

Pfffff lmao XD sooner or later, we'll have vtubers claiming descent from those Sengoku clans Even if some clans gone extinct

[@KyoushaPumpItUp]

@@shanedoesyoutube8001 there was Oda Nobuhime, but she already graduated.

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

@@KyoushaPumpItUp bruh, there's an Oda idol already???

[@KyoushaPumpItUp]

@@shanedoesyoutube8001 *was

[@anari234]

@@shanedoesyoutube8001 She decided to join the circus instead.

[@blablableh724]

The Mori remind me of the Vikings as they knew that a strong is Fleet vital and is like a missile to land troops and attack.

[@harukrentz435]

i always found it funny that Mori Terumoto botched his biding for shogun title in the battle of sekigahara and his descendants spent 260 years btching about Tokugawa behind their back lol

[@nicholasgutierrez9940]

Well they paid the Tokugawa back eventually. It ain’t bitching if you eventually follow through with it.

[@Arnice164]

Mōri is the best clan they are my favourite clan

[@mrnice7570]

Takeda/Tokugawa

[@Garindo]

The morí clan my absolute favorite clan in shogun 2 total war and nobunaga's ambition sphere of influence

[@Arnice164]

same with me im the biggest Mori clan fan they are my fav

[@JustJosephAlright]

Can you cover the Yamamoto it's super interesting the gaming had so much inner drama and history dating to the early AD years

[@euginemori6753]

we have a grandfather whose last name is Mori who came here to the Philippines on 19 17 to now work here in Davao city and is now a girlfriend and now has three children and one of them is am

[@erminiopaulis5675]

We want the history of Uesugi clan!

[@Sheepdog1314]

excellent - thank you

[@YogoYoshi2936]

Actually, you got some things wrong, the Mōri clan is descended from the Ōe clan but, the Ōe clan is actually descended from the Hashiji clan, not the Fujiwara.

[@jamesbrincefield9879]

It looks like a very frustrated happy face turned upside-down

[@anandgupta1989]

Kindly make a video on the chosokabe clan

[@euginemori6753]

One of them was our grandfather hedio mori and ww2 took place he was able to leave the family and his son hedio and the 2 daughters, and at the moment we want to see

[@samuraiplayer9451]

I would to see the history of the date clan.

[@slimjimman96]

Dude you should check out the Samurai Warriors series play the new east one 5 their story is awesome and it’s my favorite clan!!.

[@sushishogun2486]

will we see one the History of the Hosokawa clan . please

[@MariaValeriaMori]

Gracias.

[@seanpoore2428]

It's it possible that hideyoshi got the idea of flood attacks from the Dutch?? They were famous for flooding their fields in the 14-1600s, but idk if they were active in the area during hideyoshis life, and of course it's possible that it's just convergent development. Thoughts everyone??

[@nicholasgutierrez9940]

Flood attacks are common. If anything he saw Kenshin use it when he lost against him.

[@tiagomori2534]

my Clan

[@deadby15]

Why don't you cover the Chosogabe (長宗我部) Clan in Shikoku? They claimed their ancestor was the First Emperor of China (秦始皇帝). Or, the Ouchi (大内) Clan, whose ancestor was a prince in exile of a Korean Kingdom. They have very interesting family histories.

[@TheShogunate]

I would love to but I leave the decision making for these all up to my Patreon supporters

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

AY YO WHAT??? SHIN (QIN) SHI (SHI) KOU (HUANG) TEI (DI)??? and which Korean kingdom was that prince thrown out of??? Baekje???

[@deadby15]

@@shanedoesyoutube8001 Chousogabe belongs to the Hata Clan (秦氏), which claims to be the descendants of 始皇帝, the first emperor of China. The Ouchi clan's ancestor is Beekje (百済)'s prince in exile (琳聖太子.) Also, one of the earliest Shogun, Sakanoue Tamuramaro(坂上田村麻呂), is said to be a descendant of Emperor Ling of Han(後漢霊帝.) There are other Daimyo who claimed similar illustrious lineage. I think at least Ouchi's lineage is verifiable.

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

@@deadby15 wait... Wasn't the hata clan supposed to be descended from the lost expedition of Xu Fu to mount penglai/hourai???

[@deadby15]

@@shanedoesyoutube8001 Yeah, the same Hata Clan, but Xu Fu (徐福) part is questionable, because it was way even before Himiko.

[@atsukorichards1675]

森と毛利、発音も漢字も全く別物なのにね。

[@basos1888]

i want to change my region to owari, big nobunaga fan!!!!

[@TheOnlyCathyCat]

Can anyone recommend a book about Sakamoto Ryoma, I have read a very well researched but poorly edited one by an author I shan't name because his other books (not self-published) are excellent, ao I am looking for something nicer on the mind.

[@MoonMoverGaming]

Clan Mori's heraldry be like ]-:

[@MBP1918]

interesting video

[@gasmonkey1000]

What do you think of the Second Sengoku mod?

[@thejoseonone]

I thought it was an upside face.

[@citywastelandclips]

People in the comments definitely are getting there facts from total war shogun 2 lol.

[@ruskizv7776]

Nice

[@anas8411]

Ranmaru be like

[@Paracetamol404]

My surname is Mori

[@Infinitebrandon]

All my KZbin comments that are too spiritual, get deleted. Funny huh. So I'll be concise, it's rewarding to meditate on great souls. Thanks.

[@EREBUS-NOIR]

⚪️⚪️⚪️

[@toeimoviefan2978]

Mōri Clan (True)

[@Arnice164]

i love the Mōri Clan im the biggest Mōri Clan fan

[@jeffreysams3348]

Here is a great explanation of Motonari`s first battle en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arita-Nakaide.... In the Taiga Drama about Motonari`s life it was explicit that Takamoto was killed by another clan

[@nathanworthington4451]

Surf shark is a scam! It actually collects&sells your personal info🙁

[@LibertarianTerriermon]

Mōri not Mori

[@TheShogunate]

Actually 毛利氏

[@sengokusanada2690]

@@TheShogunate XD

[@quentinle4892]

Am I the only one who thinks the Mori Clan's mon looks like an upside down smiley face?

[@kamikazefilmproductions]

Your got damn right

[@itsrye8001]

not smiling though.

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

Or rather a cannon with 3 cannonballs (Source: shogun 2 Mori experience. Look it up)

[@jeffreysams3348]

The Oda were in contact with the Mori about a truce before Honnoji but they had yet to find agreement (Nobunaga wanted all the land he had already taken, the Mori wanted some of their homeland back. So there was already a channel open for negotiations. Hideyoshi agreed to the Mori demands under the condition that Bitchu - Takamatsu make a symbolic surrender by having the lord (Shimizu Muneharu) commit seppuku (and it was considered probably the finest example of seppuku ever)

[@josephmatthews7698]

"finest example of self deletion.' People are freaking weird.

[@davidshafer1872]

Anytime I played Total war I almost always picked the Mori as my clan.

[@Arnice164]

i always pick the Mori

[@mrnice7570]

Never pick Mori- Takeda/Tokugawa forever

[@mds9453]

Congrats for 100K subscribers 👍🏼

[@davidshafer1872]

Would you do a video on Tomoe Gozen?

[@euginemori6753]

We want to get to know other people more and I hope they can read this 🥺🥺😥thank you for reading this I hope you can help us

[@PedanticNo1]

"The Japanese usually understand." You see, that's scary.

[@bhawankishore7236]

Bro, continue the story of date masamune, you left it at the cliffhanger

[@michaelbajo9966]

Is there an official head of this clan? Just curious who he is and does for a living.

[@itsrye8001]

They say there are only 5 warrior clans that are still surviving today. the Date, Shimazu, Oda, Tokugawa and the Imperial family. You are free to do your own research as to how many there really is(+/-) because there are members of the Hosokawa clan up to this day.

[@YogoYoshi2936]

My favourite clan is the Mōri clan

[@Arnice164]

same with me i love the Mōri Clan im the biggest Mōri Clan Fan

[@Chris_MarMar]

My favorite clan. Mori Motonari is my favorite daimyo too. I honestly believe he could have beat Nobunaga in battle due to his high strategic skill and schemes.

[@thedragonofechigo7878]

There are at least 4 Daimyo i think would've given Nobunaga a really tough time or even beat him in battle Motonari, Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin and Date Masamune but out of these 4, Shingen and Motonari stand out. Motonari, throughout his military campaigns, used a variety of strategies to get the better of the opposition in such a gifted way. Miyajima of course comes to mind.

[@sengokusanada2690]

@@thedragonofechigo7878 I don't think Masamune would have.

[@Arnice164]

the Mori is my favourite too and Motonari Mori and Terumoto Mori are my fav daimyo biggest Mori clan fan

[@Chris_MarMar]

@@Arnice164 Terumoto wasn’t the best but he gets more flack than I think he deserves. It’s written that he had something of a shred of Motonari’s cunning but he never really called the shots as it were. Motonari obviously was badass and definitely no one to take lightly. I just wish he were born somewhat later so he could have faced more enemies. Then again he was sandwiched between two very large clans in his youth that both had many vassal clans under their control so his situation was very precarious.

[@Arriss2121]

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