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during the

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from 1583 to 1871."Kaga Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com
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, located in the Chūbu region of the island of

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. The Kaga Domain was ruled for its existence by the '' tozama'' ''

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'' of the Maeda, and covered most of Kaga Province and Etchū Province and all of Noto Province in the Hokuriku region. The Kaga Domain had an assessed '' kokudaka'' of over one million '' koku'', making it by far the largest domain of the Tokugawa shogunate. The Kaga Domain was dissolved in the abolition of the han system in 1871 by the

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and its territory was absorbed into Ishikawa Prefecture and Toyama Prefecture.

History

Maeda Toshiie was a distinguished military commander, a retainer of Oda Nobunaga and a close friend of

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. A member of the Council of Five Elders who ruled Japan during the Sengoku period, he was granted the Kaga Domain in 1583. His eldest son, Maeda Toshinaga, supported

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in his rise to power and was rewarded by an increase in his lands to 1.25 million ''koku''. Toshinaga was succeeded by his brother Maeda Toshitsune, who created two cadet branches of the clan: * Toyama Domain (100,000 ''koku''), headed by descendants of Toshitsune's second son Toshitsugu (1617–1674) *

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. This branch held the

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, rated at the minimum of 10,000 ''koku''. The Maeda clan ruled the Kaga Domain for the entirety of its existence until the abolition of the domains in 1871 after the

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residence of the Kaga Domain's ''daimyō'' is now the site of the Hongō campus of the University of Tokyo.

Holdings

As with most domains in the ''han'' system, the Kaga Domain consisted of discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned '' kokudaka'', based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields. At the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868, the Kaga Domain consisted of the following holdings: * Kaga Province ** 177 villages in Kahoku District (all of district) ** 235 villages in Ishikawa District (all of district) ** 205 villages in Nomi District (all except 18 villages) * Noto Province ** 177 villages in Hakui District (all of district) ** 128 villages in Kashima District (all of district) ** 229 villages in Fugeshi District (all of district) ** 75 villages in Suzu District (all except one village, which was shared) * Etchū Province **220 villages in Imizu District (all of district) **490 villages in Tonami District (all of district) **409 villages in Niikawa District (all of district) * Ōmi Province **3 villages in Takashima District

List of ''daimyōs''

Genealogy

The clan records were preserved over the course of centuries.前田氏 at ReichsArchiv.jp
retrieved 2013-7-9. * I. Toshiie, 1st ''daimyō'' of Kaga (cr. 1583) (1539–1599; r. 1583–1599) ** II. Toshinaga, 2nd ''daimyō'' of Kaga (1562–1614; r. 1599–1605) ** III. Toshitsune, 3rd ''daimyō'' of Kaga (1594–1658; r. 1605–1639) *** IV. Mitsutaka, 4th ''daimyō'' of Kaga (1616–1645; r. 1639–1645) **** V. Tsunanori, 5th ''daimyō'' of Kaga (1643–1724; r. 1645–1723) ***** VI. Yoshinori, 6th ''daimyō'' of Kaga (1690–1745; r. 1723–1745) ****** VII. Munetoki, 7th ''daimyō'' of Kaga (1725–1747; r. 1745–1747) ****** VIII. Shigehiro, 8th ''daimyō'' of Kaga (1729–1753; r. 1747–1753) ****** IX. Shigenobu, 9th ''daimyō'' of Kaga (1735–1753; r. 1753) ****** X. Shigemichi, 10th ''daimyō'' of Kaga (1741–1786; r. 1754–1771) ******* XII. Narinaga, 12th ''daimyō'' of Kaga (1782–1824; r. 1802–1822) ******** XIII. Nariyasu, 13th ''daimyō'' of Kaga (1811–1884; r. 1822–1866) ********* XIV. Yoshiyasu, 14th ''daimyō'' of Kaga, 14th family head (1830–1874; r. 1866–1869; Governor: 1869–1871; family head: 1869–1874) ********** Yoshitsugu, 15th family head, 1st Marquess (1858–1900; 15th family head 1874–1900, Marquess: 1884). ****** XI. Harunaga, 11th ''daimyō'' of Kaga (1745–1810; r. 1771–1802). *****Toshiaki, 4th ''daimyō'' of Kaga-Daishōji (1691–1737) ******Toshimichi, 5th ''daimyō'' of Kaga-Daishōji (1733–1781) *******Toshitoyo, 9th ''daimyō'' of Etchū-Toyama (1771–1836) ********Toshihiro, 11th ''daimyō'' of Ueno-Nanokaichi (1823–1877) *********Toshiaki, Governor of Nanokaichi, 1st Viscount (1850–1896; Governor of Nanokaichi 1869–1871, created 1st Viscount 1884) **********Toshinari, 16th family head, 2nd Marquess (1885–1942; 16th family head and 2nd Marquess 1900–1942) ***********Toshitatsu, 17th family head, 3rd Marquess (1908–1989; 17th family head 1942–1989, 3rd Marquess 1942–1947) ************Toshihiro, 18th family head (1935– ; 18th family head 1989–) *************Toshitaka (1963–) **************Toshikyo (1993–)

History

Holdings

List of ''daimyōs''

Genealogy

See also

References

Further reading