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Mori Motonari
毛利元就
1497–1571
A warlord who rose from local lord of Yoshida in Aki Province to dominate much of western Honshu. He expanded his home castle, Koriyama, over an entire mountain.
TT mk2CC BY-SA 3.0Wikimedia CommonsA mountain castle in Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi. Records credit Mori Motonari, Ōuchi Yoshinaga with building it in 1556.
Basic information
- Type
- Castle
- Setting
- Mountain castle (yamajiro)built on a mountain; expect a climbWikipedia (ja)
- Period
- Medieval (c.1185–1570s)Wikidata
- Keep (tenshu)
- No keep recordedno keep is recordedWikipedia (ja)
- Built by
- Mori Motonari, Ōuchi YoshinagaWikipedia (ja)
- Built
- 1556Wikipedia (ja)
- Main lords
- Ōuchi Yoshinaga, Ichikawa Tsuneyoshi, Yanagisawa Motomasa, Sase MotoyoshiWikipedia (ja)
- Abandoned
- 1638Wikipedia (ja)
- Remains to see
- Stone walls, Baileys / enclosures (kuruwa), WellsWikipedia (ja)
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