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Place of Birth: Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
About Maeda Narinaga
- Maeda Narinaga (?? ??, September 5, 1782 – August 4, 1824) was an Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 11th daimyo of Kaga Domain in the Hokuriku region of Japan.
- He was the 12th hereditary chieftain of the Kanazawa Maeda clan.
- Narinaga was born in Kanazawa as Kamemachi (???) later Katsumaru (??) and become Inuchiyo (???), the second son of Maeda Shigemichi, after Shigemichi had retired from his position as daimyo.
- He was adopted by his uncle, Maeda Harunaga as heir in 1795, and was brought to Edo in 1796.
- In 1797, was received in formal audience by Shogun Tokugawa Ienari in 1754 and was given a kanji from Ienari's name, thus becoming Maeda Narinaga.
- In 1802, Maeda Harunaga formally retired, and Narinaga officially became daimyo, although Harunaga continued to control the domain until his death in 1810.
- Narinaga was initially married to an adopted daughter of Tokugawa Munechika of Owari Domain.
- He later remarried to a daughter of the Kampaku Takatsukasa Masahiro.
- Narinaga attempted some half-hearted political reforms during his tenure, and turned the domain over to his son, Maeda Nariyasu in 1822.
- He died two years later in 1824 at the age of 43.
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