Maeda clan

Maeda clan 前田氏
Maeda clan emblem
Home province	Owari Province
Parent house	Sugawara clan
Titles	Various
Founder	unknown
Founding year	Muromachi period
Dissolution	still extant
Ruled until	1873 (Abolition of the han system)

Maeda clan (前田氏, Maeda-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan who occupied most of the Hokuriku region of central Honshū from the end of the Sengoku period through the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The Maeda claimed descent from the Sugawara clan through Sugawara no Kiyotomo and Sugawara no Michizane in the eighth and ninth centuries; however, the line of descent is uncertain. The Maeda rose to prominence as daimyō of Kaga Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate, which was second only to the Tokugawa clan in kokudaka (land value).