Kaga Domain

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The Kaga Domain was based at Kanazawa Castle in Kaga Province, in the modern city of Kanazawa, located in the Chūbu region of the island of Honshu. The Kaga Domain was ruled for its existence by the tozama daimyō of the Maeda, and covered most of Kaga Province and Etchū Province and all of Noto Province in the Hokuriku region. The Kaga Domain had an assessed kokudaka of over one million koku, making it by far the largest domain of the Tokugawa shogunate.[2] The Kaga Domain was dissolved in the abolition of the han system in 1871 by the Meiji government and its territory was absorbed into Ishikawa Prefecture and Toyama Prefecture.

History

Maeda Toshiie was a distinguished military commander, a retainer of Oda Nobunaga and a close friend of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. A member of the Council of Five Elders who ruled Japan during the Sengoku period, he was granted the Kaga Domain in 1583.[1] His eldest son, Maeda Toshinaga, supported Tokugawa Ieyasu in his rise to power and was rewarded by an increase in his lands to 1.25 million koku.

Toshinaga was succeeded by his brother Maeda Toshitsune, who created two cadet branches of the clan:

A third cadet line was founded by Toshitsune's brother Maeda Toshitaka for his services during the Siege of Osaka. This branch held the Nanokaichi Domain, rated at the minimum of 10,000 koku.

The Maeda clan ruled the Kaga Domain for the entirety of its existence until the abolition of the domains in 1871 after the Meiji Restoration and the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The location of the main Edo residence of the Kaga Domain's daimyō is now the site of the Hongō campus of the University of Tokyo.

Holdings

As with most domains in the han system, the Kaga Domain consisted of discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[3][4] At the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868, the Kaga Domain consisted of the following holdings:

List of daimyōs

# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudaka
File:Japanese crest Kaga Umebachi.svg Maeda clan (tozama) 1583--.1871[5]
0 Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 1583–1599 Chikuzen-no-kami (筑前守) Junior 2nd Rank (従二位); Dainagon (大納言) 830,000 koku
1 Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 1599–1605 Hizen-no-kami (肥前守) Junior 3rd Rank (従三位); Chūnagon (中納言) 1,200,000 koku
2 Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 1605–1639 Hizen-no-kami (肥前守) Junior 3rd Rank (従三位); Chūnagon (中納言) 1,200,000 koku
3 Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 1639–1645 Chikuzen-no-kami (筑前守) Senior 4th, Lower Grade (正四位下); Sakone-sho-sho (左近衛権少将) 1,200,000 koku
4 Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 1645–1723 Kaga-no-kami (加賀守) Junior 3rd Rank (従三位); Sangi (参議) 1,030,000 koku
5 Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 1723–1745 Kaga-no-kami (加賀守) Senior 4th, Lower Grade (正四位下); Sakone-chu-sho (左近衛権中将) 1,025,000 koku
6 Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 1745–1746 Kaga-no-kami (加賀守) Senior 4th, Lower Grade (正四位下); Sakone-chu-sho (左近衛権中将) 1,025,000 koku
7 Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 1746–1753 Kaga-no-kami (加賀守) Senior 4th, Lower Grade (正四位下); Sakone-chu-sho (左近衛権中将) 1,025,000 koku
8 Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 1753 Kaga-no-kami (加賀守) Senior 4th, Lower Grade (正四位下); Sakone-sho-sho (左近衛権少将) 1,025,000 koku
9 Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 1753–1771 Hizen-no-kami (肥前守) Senior 4th, Lower Grade (正四位下); Sakone-chu-sho (左近衛権中将) 1,025,000 koku
10 Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 1771–1802 Kaga-no-kami (加賀守) Senior 4th, Lower Grade (正四位下); Sakone-chu-sho (左近衛権中将) 1,025,000 koku
11 Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 1802–1822 Hizen-no-kami (肥前守) Senior 4th, Lower Grade (正四位下); Sakone-chu-sho (左近衛権中将) 1,025,000 koku
12 Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 1822–1866 Kaga-no-kami (加賀守) Senior 2nd Rank (正二位); Gon-Chūnagon (権中納言) 1,025,000 koku
13 Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 1866–1871 Kaga-no-kami (加賀守) Junior 3rd Rank (従三位); Sangi (参議) 1,030,000 koku

Genealogy

The clan records were preserved over the course of centuries.[6]

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See also

References

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  1. a b "Kaga Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-9.
  2. Totman, Conrad. (1993). Early Modern Japan, p. 119.
  3. Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
  4. Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
  5. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Maeda" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 28; retrieved 2013-4-9.
  6. 前田氏 at ReichsArchiv.jp; retrieved 2013-7-9. Template:In lang

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Further reading

  • Brown, Philip C. (1993). Central authority and local autonomy in the formation of early modern Japan: the case of Kaga domain. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
  • Chūda Toshio 忠田敏男 (1993). Sankin kōtai dōchūki: Kaga-han shiryō o yomu 参勤交代道中記: 加賀藩史料を読む. Tokyo: Heibonsha 平凡社.
  • Flershem, Robert G., and Yoshiko N. Flershem (1980). Kaga, a domain which changed slowly. Hamburg: Gesellschaft für Natur und Völkerkunde Ostasiens.
  • McClain, James L. (1982). Kanazawa : a seventeenth-century Japanese castle town. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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