| Kaga Domain 加賀藩 Kaga-han | |
|---|---|
| Domain of Japan | |
| 1601–1871 | |
 Kanazawa Castle in Kanazawa | |
 Mon of the Kaga-Maeda
| |
 Map of Kaga Domain (green), Daishōji Domain (orange) and Toyama Domain (brown) in late Edo period. | |
| Capital | Kanazawa Castle |
| Area | |
| • Coordinates | 36°34′N 136°52′E / 36.567°N 136.867°E |
| Government | |
| Daimyō | |
• 1601–1605 | Maeda Toshinaga (first) |
• 1866–1871 | Maeda Yoshiyasu (last) |
| Historical era | Edo period |
• Established | 1601 |
| 1871 | |
| Contained within | |
| • Province | Kaga, Etchū, Noto |
| Today part of | Ishikawa Prefecture Toyama Prefecture |
The Kaga Domain (加賀藩, Kaga-han), also known as the Kanazawa Domain (金沢藩, Kanazawa-han), was a domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1583 to 1871.[1]
The Kaga Domain was based at Kanazawa Castle in Kaga Province, in the modern city of Kanazawa, located in the Chūbu region of the island of Honshu. The Kaga Domain was ruled for its existence by the tozama daimyō of the Maeda, and covered most of Kaga Province and Etchū Province and all of Noto Province in the Hokuriku region. The Kaga Domain had an assessed kokudaka of over one million koku, making it by far the largest domain of the Tokugawa shogunate.[2] The Kaga Domain was dissolved in the abolition of the han system in 1871 by the Meiji government and its territory was absorbed into Ishikawa Prefecture and Toyama Prefecture.
- ^ "Kaga Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-9.
- ^ Totman, Conrad. (1993). Early Modern Japan, p. 119.