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The grounds of the ''kami-yashiki'' also included Ikutoku-en, regarded as one of the most beautiful gardens in Edo.<ref name=pond>Plaque at Sanshiro Pond, University of Tokyo.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15986158901/sizes/l]</ref> The garden, given to the Maeda by the shogunate following the successful [[siege of Osaka]] in [[1615]], was built up considerably under [[Maeda Toshitsune]], and later by [[Maeda Tsunanori]]. It features a pond, originally constructed in [[1638]], cut in the shape of the [[kanji]] for ''kokoro'' (心, "heart"); the pond was later made famous as "Sanshiro Pond" by novelist [[Natsume Soseki]].<ref name=pond/>

The grounds of the ''kami-yashiki'' also included Ikutoku-en, regarded as one of the most beautiful gardens in Edo.<ref name=pond>Plaque at Sanshiro Pond, University of Tokyo.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15986158901/sizes/l]</ref> The garden, given to the Maeda by the shogunate following the successful [[siege of Osaka]] in [[1615]], was built up considerably under [[Maeda Toshitsune]], and later by [[Maeda Tsunanori]]. It features a pond, originally constructed in [[1638]], cut in the shape of the [[kanji]] for ''kokoro'' (心, "heart"); the pond was later made famous as "Sanshiro Pond" by novelist [[Natsume Soseki]].<ref name=pond/>

While the lord resided at the ''kami-yashiki'', the domain maintained three other mansions in the city. The ''naka-yashiki'' ("middle mansion") in [[Komagome]] covered over 20,000 ''tsubo'', and the ''shimo-yashiki'' ("lower mansion") at Itabashi covered nearly 200,000 ''tsubo''. A ''kakae-yashiki'' at Fukagawa, meanwhile, covered less than 3,000 ''tsubo'', and served mainly to manage areas of rice fields which contributed to supporting the feeding and funding of the other mansions.<ref>Gallery labels, "Upper, Middle, and Lower Residences of Kaga Domain," National Museum of Japanese History.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/12591023803/sizes/h/]</ref>

While the lord resided at the ''kami-yashiki'', the domain maintained three other mansions in the city. The ''naka-yashiki'' ("middle mansion") in [[Komagome]] covered over 20,000 ''tsubo'', and the ''shimo-yashiki'' ("lower mansion") at Itabashi covered nearly 200,000 ''tsubo''. A ''kakae-yashiki'' at Fukagawa, meanwhile, covered less than 3,000 ''tsubo'', and served mainly to manage areas of rice fields which contributed to supporting the feeding and funding of the other mansions.<ref>Gallery labels, "Upper, Middle, and Lower Residences of Kaga Domain," National Museum of Japanese History.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/12591023803/sizes/h/]</ref> Between the three mansions, the Maeda employed some 1,000 servants and attendants in total.<ref>Rebecca Corbett, ''Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (2018), 120.</ref>

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