 Maeda Harunaga

Harunaga was born in Kanazawa as Tokijiro (時次郎), the tenth son of Maeda Yoshinori.His mother was a concubine and he was initially destined for the Jōdo Shinshū priesthood, and was ordained as a priest at the temple of Shōkō-ji in Toyama in 1746; however, with so many of his brothers dying untimely deaths during the "O-Ie Sōdō" known as the “Kaga Sōdō” he returned to secular life in 1768 under the name of Maeda Toshiari (利有).