Takeda

Takeda
Family name
Mon of the Takeda clan

Takeda (武田氏 Takeda) is a Japanese family name.^[1] 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
• Shinzaburo Takeda, Mexican artist
• 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 Nobutora - daimyo, Shingen's father
  • Takeda Shingen - one of the most famous daimyo in Japanese history.
  • 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 - brother and adviser to Shingen
  • Takeda Katsuyori - Shingen's son, Katsuyori commanded his father's armies after his death, and saw the fall of the Takeda family
  • Takeda Yoshinobu - son and initial heir, later executed and succeeded by Katsuyori.
• Takeda Nobumori
• Kumiko Takeda
• Yūkichi Takeda - Scholar of Japanese Literature.

Fictional characters

• Masashi Takeda, from My-Hime
• Takashi Takeda, from Yotsuba&!
• Gohee Takeda, from Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin
• Takahashi Takeda, character from Mortal Kombat

References

1. 1990 Census Name Files