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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) |
The 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).
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