Sengoku to Azuchi-Momoyama period · 1538–1599

Maeda Toshiie

前田利家 · Japan

Founder of the Kaga domain

A famous general under Oda Nobunaga, skilled with the spear and nicknamed 'Matazaemon of the Spear'; in his youth he was a friend of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was granted Noto and Kaga, and the Kaga domain became the richest of the Edo period, with an assessed yield of a million koku — the 'Kaga Hyakumangoku'.

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Historia · Kenroku-en, Kanazawa

The garden of the million-koku Kaga domain

After Maeda Toshiie was granted Kaga and Noto, the Kaga domain became the richest domain of the Edo period, known as 'Kaga's million koku'. Kenroku-en is the daimyō garden created over more than two centuries by successive Maeda lords, opened to the public only in 1871.

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