| Honorific prefix | Viscount |
|---|---|
| Native name | 前田 利定 |
| Office | Minister of Agriculture and Commerce |
| Prime minister | Kiyoura Keigo |
| Term start | 7 January 1924 |
| Term end | 11 June 1924 |
| Predecessor | Okano Keijirō |
| Successor | Takahashi Korekiyo |
| Office 1 | Minister of Communications |
| Prime minister 1 | Katō Tomosaburō |
| Term start 1 | 12 June 1922 |
| Term end 1 | 2 September 1923 |
| Predecessor 1 | Noda Utarō |
| Successor 1 | Inukai Tsuyoshi |
| Office 2 | Member of the House of Peers |
| Term start 2 | 10 July 1904 |
| Term end 2 | 2 February 1944 |
| Birth date | 10 December 1874 |
| Birth place | Tokyo, Japan |
| Death date | 2 October 1944 (aged 69) |
| Death place | Tokyo, Japan |
| Relatives | Toshinari Maeda (brother) Katsuo Okazaki (son-in-law) |
| Alma mater | Tokyo Imperial University |
Viscount Toshisada Maeda (前田 利定, Maeda Toshisada) 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 1904. 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.