Takeda

Takeda Family Name
Takeda clan mon (coat-of-arms)
Region of origin	Japanese
Popularity	Behind the Name
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Takeda
Notes	[1]

Takeda (武田氏, Takeda^?) is a Japanese family name. Throughout the course of the Sengoku period (16th century) of Japan, the famed Takeda clan of Kai province had many descendant branch families.

• Takeda clan (Aki) is a family in the Aki province
• Takeda clan (Wakasa)
• Takeda clan (Kazusa)

People

• Nana Takeda, figure skater
• Sokaku Takeda, reviver of Daitō-ryū aiki-jūjutsu
• Takeda-no-miya, one of the former ōke, or cadet branches of the Japanese imperial house established during the Meiji period by a scion of the Fushimi-no-miya. Not related to the samurai family.
• Takeda family, the family of Takeda Shingen, and a relatively important and powerful one therefore, in Japan's Sengoku period.
  • Takeda Katsuyori - Shingen's son, Katsuyori commanded his father's armies after his death, and saw the fall of the Takeda family
  • Takeda Nobushige - Shingen's younger brother, held their father's favour to be heir of the clan, continued to support his older brother throughout his life, he also wrote the Kyūjūkyū Kakun, a set of 99 short rules for Takeda house members
  • Takeda Nobutora - Shingen's father
  • Takeda Shingen, one of the most famous daimyo in Japanese history.
• ‎Takeda Nobukado
• ‎Takeda Nobumori
• ‎Takeda Yoshinobu

Fictional characters

• Masashi Takeda, from My-Hime
• Takashi Takeda, from Yotsuba&!

Other

• Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Japan's largest pharmaceutical company.

References

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