Mōri Motokiyo

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Mōri Motokiyo (1551-1597) was the fourth son to the reputed Mori Motonari throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. To naturally dissipate political contention and ensure firm relations with other neighboring clans, Motokiyo was ordered by Motonari to be adopted into the Hoida family, who thus relatively became their new respective heir and leading head. As the years passed on from this moment, Motokiyo supported his father and elder brothers throughout many variable campaigns confronted, and at length gained a reputation as a capable commander on the battlefield, even though being overshadowed by his brothers and being generally underrated as a result, despite being a competent man in the art of martial leadership. After many conflicts, Motokiyo was eventually awarded land within the province of Bitchu, at which he then initially followed by assisting his respective father during the Mori's eastward expansion, where he was ultimately tasked at variable times to construct monuments and castles that served as a dedicating representation to Motonari's growing power within the 16th century. Surmisably supporting Terumoto--the heir to the Mori--following Motonari's passing, Motokiyo more than likely continued his skill of architectural construction while at the same present time supporting in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Korean Campaigns, where it can be considered that was killed within the secondary campaign's frontal battle within the Gyeongsang Province.