contributor
523
edits
Changes
From SamuraiWiki
Jump to navigationJump to searchrewrite
[[Image:Maeda_mon.jpg|left|thumb|The Maeda kamon.]]
[[Image:Maeda_mon.jpg|left|thumb|The Maeda kamon.]]
Japanese: 前田 ''(Maeda)''
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 koku-daka was over one million koku (百万石), the largest among the daimyo. When Maeda Toshitsune retired he established branch houses through two of his younger sons and created sub-fiefs for them--Daishôji 大聖寺 (70,000 koku) in Kaga and 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," the name of Tokugawa branch families, ceremonially.
==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==
==Resources==
