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Place of Birth: Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
About Maeda Harunaga
- Maeda Harunaga (?? ??, February 4, 1745 – February 10, 1810) was an Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 10th daimyo of Kaga Domain in the Hokuriku region of Japan.
- He was the 11th hereditary chieftain of the Kanazawa Maeda clan.
- Harunaga was born in Kanazawa as Tokijiro (???), the tenth son of Maeda Yoshinori.
- His mother was a concubine and he was initially destined for the Jodo Shinshu priesthood, and was ordained as a priest at the temple of Shoko-ji in Toyama in 1746; however, with so many of his brothers dying untimely deaths during the O-Ie Sodo known as the “Kaga Sodo” he returned to secular life in 1768 under the name of Maeda Toshiari (??).
- In 1771, his brother Maeda Shigemichi officially retired, and he became daimyo.
- He was received in formal audience by Shogun Tokugawa Ieharu the same year, and was granted a kanji from Ieharu's name, becoming Maeda Harunaga.
- In 1792, he established the Kaga Domain's han school, Meirin-do, and is also noted for restoring the famed Kenroku-en gardens. Shigemichi had a son, Maeda Naritaka, after he retired, whom Harunaga adopted in 1791; however, he died in 1795.
- Harunaga then adopted Shigemichi's second son, Maeda Narinaga.
- Although Harunaga married a daughter of Maeda Toshimichi and had his own son, Toshinobu in 1800, when he retired, he turned the domain over to Shigemichi's son, Narinaga.
- Narinaga then adopted Toshimichi as heir, but Toshimichi died in 1805.
- Harunaga lived to 1810.
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