Kaga Domain

Kanazawa Castle, the seat of the Kaga domain

The Kaga Domain (加賀藩, Kaga han) was a powerful feudal domain in Kaga, Noto and Etchū Provinces of Japan (present-day Ishikawa Prefecture and Toyama Prefecture) during the Edo period. The domain was founded by Maeda Toshiie and headed by the Maeda clan. Its income rating, over 1,000,000 koku, was the highest in the nation after the Tokugawa shogunate itself. The domain was also known as Kanazawa Domain (金沢藩, Kanazawa han).

List of Heads

1. Toshiie (founding father)
2. Toshinaga
3. Toshitsune
4. Mitsutaka
5. Tsunanori
6. Yoshinori
7. Munetoki
8. Shigehiro
9. Shigenobu
10. Shigemichi
11. Harunaga
12. Narinaga
13. Nariyasu
14. Yoshiyasu

References

• 旺文社 日本史辞典 三訂版 (2000)
• Japanese Wikipedia

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.