Suō Province (周防国, Suō no kuni) was a province of Japan in the area that is today the eastern part of Yamaguchi Prefecture. Suō bordered on Aki, Iwami...
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This is a list of daimyōs from the Sengoku period of Japan. Nanbu Nobunao Nanbu Toshinao Tsugaru Tamenobu Date Harumune Date Terumune Date Masamune Date...
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Look up suo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. SUO or Suo may refer to: Suō Province of Japan Suo (journal), a soil science journal Senior Under Officer...
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Kuniezu - Nagato Province, with Suō in yellow and Iwami in blue (Yamaguchi Prefectural Archives) Genroku Kuniezu - Nagato Province, with Suō in pink and Iwami...
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region (-chihō, roughly comparable to ancient circuits, -dō) and ancient province (kuni/-shū, roughly comparable to modern prefectures, -to/-dō/-fu/-ken)...
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area of Hōfu was part of an ancient Suō Province, and the name "Hōfu" (防府) means "the capital (国府) of Suō Province (周防国)". The area has been settled since...
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member of the House of Representatives in 1924. Gaishi Nagaoka was born Suō Province in 1858. His father, San'emon Hori (堀 三右衛門, Hori Sanemon), was an adopted...
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was part of an ancient Suō Province. Its name is derived from the first character (周) of the name of the former Suō Province (周防国), and the character...
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Mōri Terumoto (category People from Aki Province)
Ōuchi Teruhiro, a remnant of the former lord of the Ōuchi clan, invaded Suō Province with reinforcements from the Ōtomo clan. disrupting the control of the...
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provinces of Suō and Nagato. During the rise of the samurai class during the Heian and Kamakura Periods (794–1333), the Ouchi family of Suō Province and the...
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Prefecture. The location was near the kokufu or provincial capital of Suō Province, and the route of the ancient Sanyōdō highway, which connected the Kinai...
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Rurikō-ji (category Suō Province)
temple be dismantled and relocated at their stronghold of Hiroshima in Aki Province. This structure, which was competed in 1540 still exists as the Hondo of...
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conducting censuses since 1960. The area of Yamaguchi was part of the ancient Suō Province. During the Muromachi period it was ruled by the Ōuchi clan, who at their...
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The newer fief, Mōri han, consisted of two provinces: Nagato Province and Suō Province. Derived from the former, Mōri han was referred to often as Chōshū...
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Japanese military. Kodama was born on March 16, 1852, in Tokuyama, Tsuno, Suō Province, the first son of the samurai Kodama Hankurō. His father was a mid-ranking...
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The Suō Mint (周防鋳銭司, Suō no juzenji) was a mint for the production of bronze coins located in the Suzenji neighborhood of the city of Yamaguchi in the...
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Yoshitaka (大内 義隆, December 18, 1507 – September 30, 1551) was the daimyō of Suō Province and the head of the Ōuchi clan, succeeding Ōuchi Yoshioki. In 1522, he...
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power based on international trade and wield political power. Based in Suō Province, towards the western end of Honshū, the Ōuchi were among the primary...
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Hayashi. Hayashi Jūzō (林 十蔵) was born in December 1817, in Tsukari, Suō Province (present-day Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture), the son of a farmer. In 1854...
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through, and pressed Mōri Terumoto to allocate part of Nagato Province and Suō Province to Mōri Hidemoto. In June, the Ieyasu's manifesto to curtail Terumoto's...
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Mōri Motonari (category People from Aki Province)
army, consisting of 10,000 men led by Sue Takafusa, finally departed Suō Province in November, pausing on Miyajima to offer prayers for victory at the...
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(1501): The former Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimura was exiled; and he retired to Suō Province. The former shōgun lived in exile in the home of the daimyō of that han...
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Iwakisan Kōgoishi (category Suō Province)
Iwakisan Kōgoishi (石城山神籠石) was an ancient castle (also known as a Korean-style fortresses in Japan (朝鮮式山城, Chōsen-shiki yamajiro) located in the city of...
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Shōhō Kuniezu - Suō Province, showing water between Ōzushima and Mashima (Yamaguchi Prefectural Archives) Genroku Kuniezu - Suō Province, with Nagato in...
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from the deity Hokushin Myōken, Prince Imseong arrived on the shores of Suō Province near present-day Yamaguchi (city) in 597 and was received by Prince Shōtoku...
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Tamanooya Shrine (category Suō Province)
Hōfu in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It is the ichinomiya of former Suō Province. The main festival of the shrine is held annually on the Saturday & Sunday...
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Jōei-ji (category Suō Province)
Kokusei-ji (国清寺), the bodaiji of Ōuchi Moriharu, the former rulers of Suō Province. However, when Chōshū Domain relocated its seat from Hagi Castle to Yamaguchi...
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Saba River (Japan) (category Suō Province)
early Kamakura period, the Kamakura shogunate earmarked the revenues of Suō Province for use in rebuilding the great national temple of Tōdai-ji in Nara,...
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the commander. In February 1865, a Second Kiheitai was formed in the Suō Province with Kosuke Shirai as its first leader with Shūzō Sera as the commander...
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The Suō Provincial Capital site (周防国衙跡, Suō Kokuga ato) is an archaeological site consisting of the ruins of the Nara period to early Heian period Provincial...
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