Daini was born as the second son of , a
karō of Kaga Domain, in 1823. The Matsudaira family, as retainers to the Maeda clan, held 4,000
koku within Kaga. Daini watched over from 1856, and was a
bugyō to
Maeda Yoshiyasu, the heir to the fiefdom of Kaga, from 1860. He became a
karō in 1863, and went to
Kyoto in 1864. As a , Daini accompanied Yoshiyasu to Kyoto in an attempt for mediation between the
Chōshū samurai and the
Tokugawa shogunate at the time of the
Kinmon incident in 1864. The mediation failed, and in the ensuing battle, Yoshiyasu fled Kyoto.
Maeda Nariyasu, Yoshiyasu's father, placed Yoshiyasu under house arrest. Daini took responsibility for Yoshiyasu's role in the Kinmon incident, and was forced to perform
seppuku with Sagawa Yoshisuke as his
kaishakunin. Yoshisuke recounted the circumstances of Daini's
seppuku in his diary. Daini is interred at in
Makino, Shiga, while his head is enshrined at in
Kanazawa. In 1879, buildings owned by the Ishikawa Prefecture Kanazawa Hospital were built on the site where Daini's family once resided. == References ==