Maeda Tosanokami-ke Shiryokan Museum

This guide to the Maeda Tosanokami-ke Shiryokan Museum in Kanazawa opens with a twelve-year-old boy named Naoyuki, delivered by his own grandmother into the household of the lord who had ruined his father. It traces his father Toshimasa's costly hesitation at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, the exile that followed, and the fierce reputation of grandmother Matsu, who once offered herself as a hostage to save the whole domain. Inside, see Toshimasa's black lacquered armor with its rabbit-eared helmet, and a grandmother's worried letter asking after a sick little boy.