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The , also known as ,〔("Kaga Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com ); retrieved 2013-4-9.〕 was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It is associated with the provinces of Kaga, Noto and Etchū in modern-day Ishikawa Prefecture and Toyama Prefecture on the island of Honshū. In the han system, Kaga was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.〔Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). (''The Bakufu in Japanese History,'' p. 150 ).〕 In other words, the domain was defined in terms of ''kokudaka'', not land area.〔Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). (''Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century,'' p. 18 ).〕 This was different from the feudalism of the West. ==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.〔 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''.〔Japanese Wikipedia article〕 Except for the Tokugawa holdings, the domain was the richest in the nation.〔Totman, Conrad. (1993). ( ''Early Modern Japan,'' p. 119 ).〕 Toshinaga was succeeded by his brother Toshitsune, who created two cadet branches of the clan: *the Toyama Domain (100,000 ''koku''), headed by descendants of Toshitsune's second son Toshitsugu (1617-1674) *the Daishōji Domain (100,000 ''koku''), headed by descendants of Toshitsune's fourth son Toshiaki (1638-1692) 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 Kaga until the abolition of the domains in 1871. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kaga Domain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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