Maeda Yoshinori

was a Japanese samurai during the Edo period, and the 5th daimyō of Kaga Domain in the Hokuriku region. He was the 6th hereditary chieftain of the Kanazawa Maeda clan.

Yoshinori was the third son of Maeda Tsunanori. His mother was a commoner and a concubine. From 1702, he was named heir and was given the childhood name of Katsumaru (勝丸) later Matsudaira Inuchiyo-maru, later becoming Toshitaka (利挙) and then Toshioki (利興). He underwent the genpuku ceremony with Shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi presiding and was renamed Yoshiharu (吉治). In 1708, he was wed to Matsuhime, the adopted daughter of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the daughter of Tokugawa Tsunanari of Owari Domain. In 1723, his father retired, citing ill health, and he became daimyō of Kaga Domain as Maeda Yoshinori.

Although Kaga Domain was stable politically, and had been accorded the same status in audiences in Edo Castle as one of the Gosanke, the economic position of the domain was growing precarious despite its one million koku status. Yoshinori's first task was to initiate a reform of domain finances. Spending had been profligate under the tenure of Tsunanori, partly to offset suspicions of the wealth of Kaga Domain by the Tokugawa shogunate. Yoshinori appointed one of his favourites, Ōtsuki Denzō, of ashigaru background, as his senior economic advisor and implemented an unpopular program of cutting expenses, curbing speculation in the rice market, and passing sumptuary consumption rules. Under this program, the domain's financial situation improved considerably, and Yoshinori appointed Ōtsuki to ever greater positions of authority. This caused great resentment amongst the senior retainers and on the death of Yoshinori in 1745 at the age of 56, there was a conservative backlash which upended many of the reforms.

Family Father: Maeda Tsunanori Mother: Omachi no Kata Wife: Tokugawa Matsuhime, daughter of Tokugawa Tsunanari of Owari Domain Concubines: Atae no Kata later Joshuin Shinkyo-in Otaki no Kata later Seigetsu’in Osada no Kata later Shin’nyoin Onui no Kata later Zenryo’in Oran no Kata Onatsu no Kata later Jusei’in Jitsujoin Okiyo no Kata Jisenin Children: Maeda Munetoki by Atae no Kata Maeda Shigehiro by Shinkyo-in Wakko’in (1731-1731) by Shinkyo-in Maeda Toshikazu (1735-1759) by Osada no Kata Maeda Shigenobu by Onui no Kata Maeda Shigemichi by Jitsujoin Maeda Harunaga by Onatsu no Kata Kiyohime (1732–1750), married Asano Munetsune of Hiroshima Domain by Otaki no Kata Sōhime (1733–1758), married Maeda Toshiyuki of Toyama Domain by Osada no Kata Gōhime (1737-1762), married Satake Yoshimasa of Kubota Domain by Osada no Kata Masahime (1739-1739) by Osada no Kata Maeda Yasogoro (1741-1761) by Osada no Kata Kiihime (1739-1740) by Oran no Kata Nobuhime (1740-1798) married Sakai Tadayoshi by Onatsu no Kata Yasuhime (1743-1743) by Onatsu no Kata Maeda Toshizane (1743-1766) by Okiyo no Kata daughter (1737) son (1743) Adopted Daughter: Ayuhime married Nanbu Toshikatsu, Maeda Toshiakira's daughter

Honors 1702: Senior 4th Grade, lower rank, Sakon-e-gon-shosho, Wakasa-no-kami 1723: Kaga-no-kami, Sakonoe-shosho; Sakon-e-gon-chusho