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*''Japanese'': 長 ''(Chou)''
The Chô were one of the [[Eight Families (Kanazawa)|Eight Families]] (''hakka'') of prominent [[Maeda clan]] retainers in [[Edo period]] [[Kanazawa]].
[[Cho Hisatsura|Chô Hisatsura]], head of the family in [[1600]], was counted among the high-ranking retainers to [[Maeda Toshiie]]. He was granted a residence within the [[Kanazawa castle|castle]] walls sometime around that year, though the Chô, along with a number of other prized retainers, were moved outside the castle walls shortly afterwards, in the 1610s. At this time, the new Chô residence was established just outside the outer moat, to the west of the castle, guarding the northwest approach<ref>McClain. p35.</ref>.
As one of the so-called Eight Families, the Chô enjoyed an official income of 10,000 ''[[koku]]'', which yielded a net income of 3,500 ''koku''<ref>McClain. p107.</ref>. They bore their own vassal families, low-ranking samurai who pursued by-employments, such as growing apples and producing ''motoyui'' paper cords for styling hair, in order to supplement their income and support themselves<ref>p.109.</ref>.
The neighborhood where the Chô residence was once located along those of other samurai families is today called Nagamachi, and remains famous for those residences (''[[bushi yashiki]]'') which have been restored or maintained and can still be seen today<ref>p148.</ref>.
==References==
*McClain, James. ''Kanazawa: A Seventeenth-Century Japanese Castle Town''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Samurai]]
The Chô were one of the [[Eight Families (Kanazawa)|Eight Families]] (''hakka'') of prominent [[Maeda clan]] retainers in [[Edo period]] [[Kanazawa]].
[[Cho Hisatsura|Chô Hisatsura]], head of the family in [[1600]], was counted among the high-ranking retainers to [[Maeda Toshiie]]. He was granted a residence within the [[Kanazawa castle|castle]] walls sometime around that year, though the Chô, along with a number of other prized retainers, were moved outside the castle walls shortly afterwards, in the 1610s. At this time, the new Chô residence was established just outside the outer moat, to the west of the castle, guarding the northwest approach<ref>McClain. p35.</ref>.
As one of the so-called Eight Families, the Chô enjoyed an official income of 10,000 ''[[koku]]'', which yielded a net income of 3,500 ''koku''<ref>McClain. p107.</ref>. They bore their own vassal families, low-ranking samurai who pursued by-employments, such as growing apples and producing ''motoyui'' paper cords for styling hair, in order to supplement their income and support themselves<ref>p.109.</ref>.
The neighborhood where the Chô residence was once located along those of other samurai families is today called Nagamachi, and remains famous for those residences (''[[bushi yashiki]]'') which have been restored or maintained and can still be seen today<ref>p148.</ref>.
==References==
*McClain, James. ''Kanazawa: A Seventeenth-Century Japanese Castle Town''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Samurai]]