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[[Image:Maeda_mon.jpg|left|thumb|The Maeda kamon.]]
[[File:Maeda-jinbaori.jpg|right|thumb|320px|An 18th or early 19th century ''[[jinbaori]]'' bearing the Maeda crest]]
* ''Japanese'': [[前田]] 家 ''(Maeda ke)''
The Maeda of [[Owari province|Owari]] claimed [[Fujiwara clan|Fujiwara]] descent. They rose to prominince under [[Oda Nobunaga]] and then [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] and by [[1598]] were one of the most powerful families in Japan, controlling most of the Hokuriku region. Although they lost some of their wealth in the wake of the [[Sekigahara Campaign]], they remained powerful into the Edo Period.
The origins of the Maeda clan is not known, though in Toshiie's time it was said they descended from [[Sugawara Michizane]], hence the plum-blossom family crest. However, historically they came from the village of Arako (now in Nagoya City) in [[Owari province]].
Maeda Toshiie served [[Oda Nobunaga]], fighting under Nobunaga's general [[Shibata Katsuie]] in the [[Hokuriku]], and was given land in [[Echizen province]], then in [[Noto province]]. After surrendering to [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Hideyoshi]] in [[1583]] he was given land in [[Kaga province]] that included Kanazawa. Kanazawa was to the the seat of the clan for almost 300 years. In 1585 he was also given land in [[Etchu province|Etchû province]].
Toshiie's son Toshinaga sided with [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] during the [[Battle of Sekigahara|Sekigahara]] campaign and received the areas of Kaga that he did not have already. Thus, during the [[Edo period]] the Maeda clan ruled the three provinces of Kaga, Noto, and Etchû, which meant that their ''[[kokudaka]]'' was over one million ''[[koku]]'' (百万石), the largest among the ''daimyô''. When Maeda Toshitsune retired he established branch houses through two of his younger sons and created sub-fiefs for them--[[Daishoji han|Daishôji]] 大聖寺 (70,000 ''koku'') in Kaga and [[Toyama han|Toyama]] 富山 (100,000 ''koku'') in Etchû. These fiefs continued thus until the [[Meiji Restoration]].
The Maeda clan was a ''[[tozama]]'' clan, but it was considered close to the shogunate, and the head was entitled to use the name "[[Matsudaira clan|Matsudaira]]," the name of [[Matsudaira clan|Tokugawa branch families]], ceremonially.
==Selected Clan Members==
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*[[Maeda Toshiie]] 利家 (1538-1599) <br>
The founder of the clan
*[[Maeda Toshiharu (d. 1560)]] 利春 <br>
Father of Toshiie
*[[Maeda Matsu]] (Hôshun-in) 芳春院 （まつ) (1547-1617) <br>
Wife of Toshiie
*[[Jufuku-in]] (Chiyo) 寿福院 (1570-1631)<br>
Concubine of Toshiie, mother of Toshitsune
*[[Maeda Toshinaga]] 利長 (1562-1614) <br>
Eldest son and successor of Toshiie
*[[Maeda Toshimasa]] 利政 (1578-1633)<br>
Second son of Toshiie; sided against Ieyasu in 1600
*[[Maeda Toshitsune]] 利常 (1593-1658)<br>
Son of Toshiie; adopted son and successor of Toshinaga
*[[Tama-hime]] 珠姫 (1599-1622) <br>
Also known as Nene-hime 子々姫. Daughter of [[Tokugawa Hidetada]]; married Toshitsune in [[1601]].
*[[Maeda Mitsumasa]] (1613-1645)<br>
Son of Toshitsune; lord of [[Toyama han]]
*[[Maeda Toshiharu (d. 1660)|Maeda Toshiharu]] 利治 (1618-1660) <br>
Son of Toshitsune; lord of [[Daishoji han|Daishôji han]]
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==References==
==References==
* 国史大辞典, 国史大辞典編集委員会／編 吉川弘文館 1988.<br> Kokushi Daijiten (The Great Dictionary of National History), Kokushi Daijiten Editorial Committee.
==Resources==
The following link has digital copies and partial transcriptions of several lists of samurai of the Maeda clan (加賀藩の侍帳）
http://www.library.pref.ishikawa.jp/toshokan/dglib/samurai/
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