Suō Province

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. It was sometimes called Bōshū (防州). Suō bordered on Aki, Iwami, and Nagato Provinces.

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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.