Kaga Domain

The , also known as the , was a domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1583 to 1871. 
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. 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.
History.
Maeda Toshiie was a distinguished military commander, a retainer of Oda Nobunaga and a close friend of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. A member of the Council of Five Elders who ruled Japan during the Sengoku period, he was granted the Kaga Domain in 1583. His eldest son, Maeda Toshinaga, supported Tokugawa Ieyasu in his rise to power and was rewarded by an increase in his lands to 1.25 million "koku".
Toshinaga was succeeded by his brother Maeda Toshitsune, who created two cadet branches of the clan:
A third cadet line was founded by Toshitsune's brother Maeda Toshitaka for his services during the Siege of Osaka. This branch held the Nanokaichi Domain, rated at the minimum of 10,000 "koku". 
The Maeda clan ruled the Kaga Domain for the entirety of its existence until the abolition of the domains in 1871 afer the Meiji Restoration and the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The location of the main Edo residence of the Kaga Domain's "daimyō" is now the site of the Hongō campus of the University of Tokyo.
Holdings.
As with most domains in the "han" system, the Kaga Domain consisted of discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned "kokudaka", based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields. At the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868, the Kaga Domain consisted of the following holdings:
List of "daimyōs".
Genealogy.
The clan records were preserved over the course of centuries.