Terumoto Mori (4 February 1553 – 2 June 1625) was the daimyo of the Mori clan from 1571 to 1579 and the leader of the Choshu Domain from 1600 until his death.
Biography[]
Grandson of Motonari Mori, Terumoto first held field command at the Battle of Chugoku in 1576, in which he was secretly directed by his grandfather. He fought against Hideyoshi Hashiba's Oda armies until the Mori clan's final defeat in the Second Battle of Kizugawa in 1579, after which he was deposed as daimyo.
Made a vassal of Hideyoshi and the Oda, Terumoto fought under Hideyoshi in the Battle of Kyushu in 1587 against the Shimazu clan and built Hiroshima. Enfeoffed with 1.2 million koku, he could mobilize over 120,000 troops to a battle. He brought some of these men to the Fall of Odawara, and stayed at home during the invasions of Korea.
When Hideyoshi die in 1598, Terumoto sided with Mitsunari Ishida and fought against Ieyasu Tokugawa in the civil war of 1599-1600. However, he was in Osaka defending Hideyori Toyotomi, the young son of Hideyoshi, and was absent from the Battle of Sekigahara, which could have been won if he had been present. Afterwards his domain was cut down to 1/3 of its original size and Terumoto was made the daimyo of the Choshu Domain. He was succeeded by Hidenari Mori.