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* ''Died: [[1602]]''
* ''Died: [[1602]]''
* ''Title: Mimbu-kyô Hôin''
* ''Title: Mimbu-kyô Hôin''
* ''Japanese'': [[前田]]玄以 ''(Maeda Gen'i)''
Gen-i was a Buddhist priest for Mt. Hiei who entered the service of the [[Oda clan|Oda]] sometime before [[1570]] and was named his deputy for Kyoto in [[1582]]. After [[Oda Nobunaga|Nobunaga's]] death he served [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Hideyoshi]] and received a 50,000 koku fief at Takamai in [[Tamba province]] and was tasked with laying the groundwork for [[Fushimi castle]] in [[1592]]. He was named one of the Five Bugyô (magistrates) by Hideyoshi before the latter's death.
Maeda Gen'i was [[Kyoto]] deputy under [[Oda Nobunaga]], and later, one of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]'s [[Five Bugyo|Five Bugyô]].
A Buddhist priest of [[Mt. Hiei]], Gen'i entered the service of the [[Oda clan]] sometime before [[1570]]. Nobunaga named him his deputy for Kyoto in [[1582]]. After Nobunaga's death, Gen'i served Toyotomi Hideyoshi and received a 50,000 ''[[koku]]'' fief at Takamai in [[Tamba province]], though he remained Kyoto deputy. In that position, he oversaw much of the reconstruction and reorganization of the city sponsored by Hideyoshi, including the construction in [[1591]] of the ''[[odoi]]'' embankment surrounding the center of the city, and work the following year on [[Fushimi castle]].
Prior to his death, Hideyoshi named Gen'i one of his [[Five Bugyo|Five Bugyô]].
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