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Suō Province

Suō Province was an old province of Japan in south-western Honshu, now the eastern part of Yamaguchi Prefecture. It was the home of the Ōuchi clan, whose town of Yamaguchi became a cultural centre in the 15th and 16th centuries. After 1600 it formed, with Nagato, the Chōshū Domain of the Mōri, which led the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Suō Province
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Mentioned in 3 state histories

Ouchi clan domainMori clan domainChoshu Domain

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Suō Province. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/suo-province
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