# Maeda Toshisada

Viscount Toshisada Maeda (前田 利定, Maeda Toshisada, 10 December 1874 – 2 October 1944) was a Japanese politician who was Minister of Communications and Minister of Agriculture and Commerce in the pre-war Empire of Japan.

## Biography

Toshisada Maeda was born in Tokyo, as the eldest son of Maeda Toshiaki, the final daimyō of Nanokaichi Domain in Kōzuke Province, and inherited his father’s kazoku peerage title of shishaku (viscount). His brother, Toshinari, was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
Toshisada Maeda was a graduate of Tokyo Imperial University. He served briefly in the infantry during the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894, and afterwards assumed his family’s seat in the House of Peers of the Diet of Japan. In 1922, he was appointed Minister of Communications in the cabinet of Katō Tomosaburō. He subsequently served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Kiyoura Keigo as Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. He retired from public life in January 1944, and died in October of the same year. He was posthumously awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasures, 1st class.
Maeda studied poetry under Sasaki Nobutsuna. His daughter married post-war Foreign Minister Katsuo Okazaki.

## Family tree

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Matsushita Uemon | Matsushita Uemon | Matsushita Uemon | Matsushita Uemon | Matsushita Uemon | Matsushita Uemon |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Yasuda Koichiro | Yasuda Koichiro | Yasuda Koichiro | Yasuda Koichiro | Yasuda Koichiro | Yasuda Koichiro | | | Toku Eda | Toku Eda | Toku Eda | Toku Eda | Toku Eda | Toku Eda | | | Mastsushita Kusunoki | Mastsushita Kusunoki | Mastsushita Kusunoki | Mastsushita Kusunoki | Mastsushita Kusunoki | Mastsushita Kusunoki | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hirata Tosuke | Hirata Tosuke | Hirata Tosuke | Hirata Tosuke | Hirata Tosuke | Hirata Tosuke | Maeda Toshiaki | Maeda Toshiaki | Maeda Toshiaki | Maeda Toshiaki | Maeda Toshiaki | Maeda Toshiaki | Mitsui Takamine | Mitsui Takamine | Mitsui Takamine | Mitsui Takamine | Mitsui Takamine | Mitsui Takamine |
| Tetsujiro Nakao | Tetsujiro Nakao | Tetsujiro Nakao | Tetsujiro Nakao | Tetsujiro Nakao | Tetsujiro Nakao | Yasue | Yasue | Yasue | Yasue | Yasue | Yasue | Jun Iue | Jun Iue | Jun Iue | Jun Iue | Jun Iue | Jun Iue | Yurou Iue | Yurou Iue | Yurou Iue | Yurou Iue | Yurou Iue | Yurou Iue | Toshio Iue | Toshio Iue | Toshio Iue | Toshio Iue | Toshio Iue | Toshio Iue | | | Mumeno | Mumeno | Mumeno | Mumeno | Mumeno | Mumeno | | | Konosuke Matsushita | Konosuke Matsushita | Konosuke Matsushita | Konosuke Matsushita | Konosuke Matsushita | Konosuke Matsushita | | | | | Hirata Shodo | Hirata Shodo | Hirata Shodo | Hirata Shodo | Hirata Shodo | Hirata Shodo | Shizuko | Shizuko | Shizuko | Shizuko | Shizuko | Shizuko | Maeda Toshisada | Maeda Toshisada | Maeda Toshisada | Maeda Toshisada | Maeda Toshisada | Maeda Toshisada | Keiko | Keiko | Keiko | Keiko | Keiko | Keiko | Mitsui Hachirōemon | Mitsui Hachirōemon | Mitsui Hachirōemon | Mitsui Hachirōemon | Mitsui Hachirōemon | Mitsui Hachirōemon |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Satoshi Iue | Satoshi Iue | Satoshi Iue | Satoshi Iue | Satoshi Iue | Satoshi Iue | | | | | | | Matsushita Sachiko | Matsushita Sachiko | Matsushita Sachiko | Matsushita Sachiko | Matsushita Sachiko | Matsushita Sachiko | | | Masaharu Matsushita | Masaharu Matsushita | Masaharu Matsushita | Masaharu Matsushita | Masaharu Matsushita | Masaharu Matsushita | | | | | | | Hirata Katsumi | Hirata Katsumi | Hirata Katsumi | Hirata Katsumi | Hirata Katsumi | Hirata Katsumi | | | | | | | Nobuko | Nobuko | Nobuko | Nobuko | Nobuko | Nobuko | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Iue Toshimasa | Iue Toshimasa | Iue Toshimasa | Iue Toshimasa | Iue Toshimasa | Iue Toshimasa | | | | | | | Hiro Matsushita | Hiro Matsushita | Hiro Matsushita | Hiro Matsushita | Hiro Matsushita | Hiro Matsushita | | | Masayuki Matsushita (松下正幸 | Masayuki Matsushita (松下正幸 | Masayuki Matsushita (松下正幸 | Masayuki Matsushita (松下正幸 | Masayuki Matsushita (松下正幸 | Masayuki Matsushita (松下正幸 | Atsuko | Atsuko | Atsuko | Atsuko | Atsuko | Atsuko | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Political offices :
| Preceded byOkano Keijirō | Minister of Agriculture & Commerce Jan 1924 – Jun 1924 | Succeeded byTakahashi Korekiyo |
| Preceded byNoda Utarō | Communications Minister Jun 1922 – Sept 1923 | Succeeded byInukai Tsuyoshi |