A pre-trip note for Kanazawa, Toyama, and Komatsu covering the early and middle Edo period: Maeda Toshitsune's creation of the Toyama and Daishōji branch domains and his retirement to Komatsu, the Tatsumi Canal, Gyokusen'inmaru garden and other works in Kanazawa, sealed village tax-assessment documents and the transfer of the Hakusan foothill villages to shogunal rule, Maeda Tsunanori's Hyakkō Hishō, Maeda Masatoshi and the Toyama medicine trade, Bashō's journey through Hokuriku in 1689, and the Shōtoku uprising, the Kaga disturbance, and Komatsu's festival floats in the eighteenth century.