Suō Province

Suō was also the Japanese name for Suao, Yilan, Taiwan.

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.^[1] It was sometimes called Bōshū (防州^?). Suō bordered on Aki, Iwami, and Nagato Provinces.

The ancient provincial capital was in Hōfu. Suō was ruled for much of the Muromachi Period by the Ōuchi clan, who built a castle at Yamaguchi. In the Sengoku Period it was conquered by the Mōri clan, and was ruled remotely by them for much of the Edo Period.

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References

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128