Maeda Toshitsune

Birth: 1593
Death: 1658
Sons: Maeda Mitsumasa (1613-1645), Maeda Toshitsugu, Maeda Toshiharu (1618-1660)
Distinction: Lord of Kaga, Noto, and Etchû
Titles: Chikuzen no kami
Japanese: 前田利常 (Maeda Toshitsune)

Toshitsune was the 4th son of Maeda Toshiie. He was adopted as heir by his elder brother Toshinaga and became daimyô of the Maeda clan when Toshinaga retired in 1605. He led men against the defenders of Osaka Castle and fought at the Battle of Tennôji (1615).

In 1616, Toshitsune met with a formal diplomatic mission from the Siamese kingdom of Ayutthaya, in his home domain of Kaga; due to the sudden death of Tokugawa Ieyasu at that time, however, the mission did not continue on to Edo.^[1]

Toshitsune retired to Komatsu in 1639 and was succeeded by his son Mitsumasa while placing his second son Toshitsugu in Tôyama (100,000 koku), and his third son, Toshiharu, in charge of the recently created Daishôji han (70,000 koku).^[2]

References

Initial text from Sengoku Biographical Dictionary (Samurai-Archives.com) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005

↑ Cesare Polenghi, Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 41.
↑ Stele at former site of Daishôji domain's Edo mansion, today the University of Tokyo School of Medicine.[1]

[1] Cesare Polenghi, Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 41.

[2] Stele at former site of Daishôji domain's Edo mansion, today the University of Tokyo School of Medicine.[1]

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