was an

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

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, and the 11th ''

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'' of Kaga Domain in the

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of Japan. He was the 12th hereditary chieftain of the Kanazawa

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. Narinaga was born in

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as Kamemachi (亀万千) later Katsumaru (勝丸) and become Inuchiyo (犬千代), the second son of

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, after Shigemichi had retired from his position as ''daimyō''. He was adopted by his uncle,

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as heir in 1795, and was brought to Edo in 1796. In 1797, was received in formal audience by ''

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in 1754 and was given a ''

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'' from Ienari's name, thus becoming Maeda Narinaga. In 1802, Maeda Harunaga formally retired, and Narinaga officially became ''daimyō'', although Harunaga continued to control the domain until his death in 1810. Narinaga was initially married to an adopted daughter of

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of Owari Domain. He later remarried to a daughter of the ''Kampaku''

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. Narinaga attempted some half-hearted political reforms during his tenure, and turned the domain over to his son,

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in 1822. He died two years later in 1824 at the age of 43.

Family

*Father:

*Mother: Tenrin’in *Adopted Father:

*Wives: ** Matsudaira Kotohime, daughter of Matsudaira Yoshimasa ** Takatsukasa Takako (1787-1870) *Concubines: ** Oyae no Kata later Eiyou’in ** Tosei’in ** Teisei’in ** Osato no Kata later Gekkoin *Children: ** Naohime (1809-1825) betrothed to Ogasawara Tadaakira by Oyae no Kata **

by Oyae no Kata ** Atsuhime (1813-1852) married

Matsudaira Katataka was the 8th ''daimyō'' of Aizu Domain in Mutsu Province, Japan (modern-day Fukushima Prefecture). His courtesy title was '' Sakonoe-gon-chūshō'' and ''Jijū'', and his Court rank was Senior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade. Biography Matsudaira ...

by Oyae no Kata ** Yuuhime (1813-1875) married Maeda Toshinaka by Tosei’in ** Hirohime (1815-1856) married Ogasawara Tadaakira by Oyae no Kata ** Takamejiro (1817-1825) by Oyae no Kata ** Ikuhime (1818-1829) betrothed to

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by Oyae no Kata ** Takahime (1818-1831) betrothed to Arima Yorito by Teisei’in ** Suzuhime (1819-1835) married Honda Masaharu by Oyae no Kata ** Tamesaburo (1819-1819) by Osato no Kata ** Tsuguhime (1819-1823) (twins with suzuhime) by Oyae no Kata ** Nobunosuke (1821-1834) by Oyae no Kata

References

* Papinot, Edmond. (1948). ''Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan''. New York: Overbeck Co.

External links

Kaga Domain on "Edo 300 HTML"
(3 November 2007) 1782 births 1824 deaths People of Edo-period Japan Maeda clan Tozama daimyo People from Kanazawa, Ishikawa {{Daimyo-stub