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from his father and that is why he began to use the name. It is reasonable to say he is the first head of the Mōri clan but in the Mōri family tradition he is the 39th head of the family as he is the 39th linear descendant of
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allies. The lineage of the Mori clan is well verified because it matches up from several different sources such as the Mōri Family Tree (毛利系図),
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