Kanazawa Domain

Japanese: 金沢藩 - かなざわはん

Also called the Kaga Domain. During the Edo period, this domain ruled over the Kaga Province (Ishikawa Prefecture), Noto Province (Ishikawa Prefecture), and Ecchu Province (Toyama Prefecture). The domain's lord was the outsider Omaeida clan. Throughout the Edo period, it boasted the largest land area of over 1.02 million koku, commonly known as the Kaga Maeda Million Koku. Staff were stationed in the great hall of Edo Castle. Maeda Toshiie was given the Noto Province by Oda Nobunaga, and then Ecchu Province and Kaga Province by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The second lord, Toshinaga, was given the Kaga Province by Tokugawa Ieyasu after the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, and his land area reached 1.2 million koku. The third lord, Toshitsune, divided the Ecchu Toyama Domain (100,000 koku) into Maeda Toshitsugu and the Kaga Daishoji Domain (70,000 koku) into Maeda Toshiharu in 1639, and his land area grew to over 1.02 million koku. The 110 years under the rule of the 3rd lord Toshitsune, the 4th lord Mitsutaka, and the 5th lord Tsunanori were a period in which the foundations of the domain's government were established. Toshitsune's agricultural reform project, known as the Kaisakuho, which he carried out from 1651 to 1656, is particularly famous. Tsunanori, who inherited the results of this project, improved the domain's systems and promoted a policy of civil rule, such as inviting scholars and writers to encourage art and crafts. The domain's finances later reached a deadlock, and under the reign of the 6th lord Yoshinori, Otsuki Denzo was appointed to bolster the finances by linking with commercial capital, but he was ousted by the Kaga Uprising. Under the reign of the 13th lord Nariyasu, reformers including Terashima Kuranobu began to reorganize the finances and set up a product department, but they were unable to complete the task. This continued for 14 generations until the Meiji Restoration, when the domains were abolished and prefectures were established.

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Japanese:

加賀藩ともいう。江戸時代加賀国 (石川県) ，能登国 (石川県) ，越中国 (富山県) 地方を領有した藩。藩主は外様大名前田氏。江戸時代を通じて 102万石余，俗に加賀前田百万石といい，最大規模を誇った。江戸城大広間詰。前田利家は織田信長から能登1国を，次いで豊臣秀吉から越中国と加賀国2郡を与えられ，2代利長は慶長5 (1600) 年関ヶ原の戦い後徳川家康から加賀2郡を与えられ，領地は 120万石に達した。3代利常が寛永 16 (39) 年に前田利次に越中富山藩 10万石，前田利治に加賀大聖寺藩7万石を分知してのち 102万石余となる。3代利常，4代光高，5代綱紀 (つなのり) の治世約 110年間は藩政の基礎を確立した時期で，とりわけ，利常が慶安4 (51) 年から明暦2 (56) 年にかけて行なった改作法とよぶ農政刷新事業は有名である。その成果を継承した綱紀は，藩の諸制度を完備させ，学者，文人を招いて美術工芸の奨励など，文治政策を推進した。そののち藩財政が行きづまり，6代吉徳 (よしのり) のとき，大槻伝蔵が取立てられて商業資本と結び財政補強が行われたが，加賀騒動により失脚した。 13代斉泰 (なりやす) のとき，寺島蔵人らの改革派が財政整理，産物方設置に着手したが不徹底に終った。明治維新まで 14代続き，廃藩置県にいたった。

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