Maeda Shigenobu

In this Japanese name, the surname is Maeda.

Maeda Shigenobu
前田 重靖
Maeda Shigenobu
Born	(1735-12-31)December 31, 1735 Edo, Japan
Died	October 25, 1753(1753-10-25) (aged 17)
Nationality	Japanese
Predecessor	Maeda Shigehiro
Successor	Maeda Shigemichi
Father	Maeda Yoshinori
8th Daimyō of Kaga Domain
In office 1753–1753

Maeda Shigenobu (前田 重靖, December 31, 1735 – October 25, 1753) was an Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 8th daimyō of Kaga Domain in the Hokuriku region of Japan. He was the 9th hereditary chieftain of the Kanazawa Maeda clan.

Shigenobu was born in Kanazawa as the fifth son of Maeda Yoshinori. His mother was a concubine, Onui no Kata later Zenryo’in. His childhood name was Kisaburō (嘉三郎) and his youth name was Maeda Toshichika (利見). In 1748, during the height of the O-Ie Sōdō known as the “Kaga Sōdō” he was brought to Edo together with his elder brother Maeda Toshikazu, and was adopted as provisional heir to the young Maeda Shigehiro. He was presented in formal audience to Shōgun Tokugawa Ieshige in 1751. Less than two years later, with the unexpected death of his elder brother, Maeda Shigehiro in 1753, he became daimyō and was renamed Maeda Shigenobu, upon being received in formal audience once again by Shōgun Tokugawa Ieshige. Three months after becoming daimyō he departed Edo for Kanazawa; however, en route he contacted measles and died shortly after reaching Kanazawa at the age of 17. At that time, he was betrothed with Tokugawa Yoshihime, Tokugawa Munenao's daughter.

Kaga Domain passed to his younger brother Shigemichi.

References

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

External links

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