Mōri Okimoto

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Mōri Okimoto (毛利興元, Mōri Okimoto^? 1492-September 21, 1516) was a succeeding head to the Mōri clan throughout the mid-Sengoku period of Feudal Japan. During Okimoto's childhood, his father, Mōri Hiromoto, called him by the name of Mōri Kōchiyomaru (毛利幸千代丸), and was treated moderately for being the eldest son and designated heir to headship over the clan. As Okimoto succeeded the Mōri in 1500--at which Hiromoto had initially retired--he and his younger brother, Motonari, became primary supporters to the powerful Deputy Shogun, Ouchi Yoshioki, assisting the latter's aspirations against the rivaling Takeda clan of Aki Province as many years passed on in like manner. Despite such a beneficial course of action, Hiromoto died in 1506 by means of over-drinking, and Okimoto's reputation began to be tainted by acting in a similar as did his father, and at length caused his own life to be taken during the year of 1516--specifically within September--where it is stated that he died out of some form of kidney failure or a differing sickness that was additionally the result of alcohol. Nonetheless, Motonari would become a figure of Okimoto's redemption, ensuring that the Mōri's name would never be thrown into dishonor and humiliation, but to instead be seen as a relatively independent and influential figure of power within a period of consistent warring.