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* ''Birth: [[1593]]''

* ''Birth: [[1593]]''

* ''Death: [[1658]]''

* ''Death: [[1658]]''

* ''Sons: [[Maeda Mitsumasa]] ([[1613]]-[[1645]]), [[Maeda Toshitsugu]], [[Maeda Toshiharu (d. 1660)|Maeda Toshiharu]] ([[1618]]-[[1660]])''

* ''Sons: [[Maeda Mitsumasa]] ([[1613]]-[[1645]]), [[Maeda Toshitsugi]], [[Maeda Toshiharu (1618-1660)|Maeda Toshiharu]] ([[1618]]-[[1660]])''

* ''Distinction: Lord of [[Kaga province|Kaga]], [[Noto province|Noto]], and [[Etchu province|Etchû]]''

* ''Distinction: Lord of [[Kaga province|Kaga]], [[Noto province|Noto]], and [[Etchu province|Etchû]]''

Toshitsune was the 4th son of [[Maeda Toshiie]]. He was adopted as heir by his elder brother [[Maeda Toshinaga|Toshinaga]] and became [[daimyo|daimyô]] of the [[Maeda clan]] when Toshinaga retired in [[1605]]<!--see Toshinaga's bio-->. He led men against the defenders of [[Osaka Castle]] and fought at the [[Battle of Tennoji|Battle of Tennôji]] ([[1615]]). He retired in [[1639]] and was succeeded by his son Mitsumasa while placing a younger son, Toshiharu, in charge of the recently created [[Daishoji han|Daishôji han]] and his 3rd son [[Maeda Toshitsugu|Toshitsugu]] in Toyama. By this point the Maeda clan had become one of the most powerful daimyô houses in Japan.

He was betrothed on [[1601]]/9/30 to [[Tamahime]]<!--珠姫 or Nenehime 子子姫-->, daughter of [[Tokugawa Hidetada]].<ref>Cecilia Segawa Seigle, “Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the Formation of Edo Castle Rituals of Giving,” in Martha Chaiklin (ed.), ''Mediated by Gifts: Politics and Society in Japan 1350-1850'', Brill (2017), 120.</ref>

 

In [[1616]], Toshitsune met with a formal diplomatic mission from the Siamese kingdom of [[Ayutthaya]], in his home domain of [[Kaga han|Kaga]]; due to the sudden death of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] at that time, however, the mission did not continue on to [[Edo]].<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam''. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 41.</ref>

 

Toshitsune retired to Komatsu in [[1639]] and was succeeded by his son Mitsumasa while placing his second son [[Maeda Toshitsugu|Toshitsugu]] in [[Toyama han|Tôyama]] (100,000 ''[[koku]]''), and his third son, [[Maeda Toshiharu (d. 1660)|Toshiharu]], in charge of the recently created [[Daishoji han|Daishôji han]] (70,000 ''koku'').<ref>Stele at former site of Daishôji domain's Edo mansion, today the University of Tokyo School of Medicine.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/35228545841/sizes/h/]</ref>

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