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Place of Birth: Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
About Maeda Shigemichi
- Maeda Shigemichi (?? ??, November 30, 1741 – July 7, 1786) was an Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 9th daimyo of Kaga Domain in the Hokuriku region of Japan.
- He was the 10th hereditary chieftain of the Kanazawa Maeda clan.
- Shigemichi was born in Kanazawa as Kenjiro (???), the seventh son of Maeda Yoshinori.
- His mother was a concubine and he was initially destined to be adopted by Kaga clan retainer Moirai Nagakata; however, with so many of his brother dying untimely deaths during the O-Ie Sodo known as the “Kaga Sodo” these plans were cancelled.
- In 1753, he was named to succeed his brother Maeda Shigenobu and became daimyo the same year.
- He immediately prepared to depart for Edo, but came down with measles (the same disease which had killed his brother), and his departure was delayed by a year.
- He was received in formal audience by Shogun Tokugawa Ieshige in 1754 and his posthumous adoption and position as daimyo was confirmed.
- One of his first steps was to end the “Kaga Sodo” by siding firmly with the conservative faction, ending the fiscal experiments begun by Otsuki Denzo.
- While this purge brought political stability back to the domain, the domain finances immediately spiralled out of control.
- In 1759, Kanazawa Castle burned down, along with much of the surrounding castle town, and to domain was forced to borrow 50,000 ryo from the shogunate for immediate repairs. Sgigemichi was a noted patron of Noh and Kyogen drama. Shigemichi yielded headship to his half-brother Harunaga in 1771, and died in 1786 at age 44.
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