Takeda

Family name
name = Takeda

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caption= Takeda clan mon (coat-of-arms)
pronunciation = Takeda
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region = Japanese
origin = Japanese
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footnotes = [ [http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html 1990 Census Name Files ] ] nihongo|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

* Takeda Shingen, one of the most famous daimyo in Japanese history.
* 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.
* Sokaku Takeda, reviver of "Daitō-ryū aiki-jūjutsu"
*Takeda Nobutora - Shingen's father
*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 Nobukado
*‎Takeda Nobumori
*‎Takeda Yoshinobu
* Nana Takeda, figure skater

Fictional characters

* Masashi Takeda, a character from My-Hime

References