Maeda Munetoki Biography

In this *anese name, the surname is Maeda.

Maeda Munetoki (前田 宗辰, June 5, 1725 – January 18, 1747) was an Edo period *anese samurai, and the 6th daimyō of Kaga Domain in the Hokuriku region of *an. He was the 7th hereditary chieftain of the Kanazawa Maeda clan.

Munetoki was born in Kanazawa as the eldest son of Maeda Yoshinori. His mother was a concubine. From 1725, he was given the childhood name of Matsudaira Katsu-maru (勝丸) later Matsudaira Inuchiyo (犬千代). He was sent to Edo in 1736, receiving the name of Maeda Toshikatsu (利勝), and the courtesy *les of Sado-no-kami and Sakonoe-shosho and court rank of Senior 4th Grade, lower rank. He was received in formal audience by Shōgun Tokugawa Yoshimune in 1737, who granted him a kanji from his name, which thus became Maeda Munetoki. In 1744, he was wed to a daughter of Matsudaira Masakata of Aizu Domain. In 1745, on his father’s death, he became daimyō and his *les were changed to Kaga-no-kami and Sakonoe-chusho. However, later the same year, his wife died in childbirth, and he followed less than a month later at the age of 21.

Kaga Domain p*ed to his younger brother Shigehiro.

Family

  • Father: Maeda Yoshinori
  • Mother: Atae no Kata later Joshuin
  • Wife: Matsudaira Tsunehime (d.1745), daughter of Matsudaira Masakata of Aizu Domain
  • Child: Son (1745)

References

  • Papinot, Edmond. (1948). Historical and Geographical Dictionary of *an. New York: Overbeck Co.

External links

  • Kaga Domain on "Edo 300 HTML" (3 November 2007) (in *anese)