Takeda

Takeda
Mon of the Takeda clan

Takeda (武田, 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

• Daisaku Takeda (武田 大作, born 1973), Japanese rower
• Kumiko Takeda
• Larissa Tago Takeda, Japanese voice actress
• Masashi Takeda (wrestler), Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
• Misae Takeda (武田 美佐江, born 1943), Japanese speed skater
• Nana Takeda, figure skater
• Shinzaburo Takeda, Mexican artist
• Takeda Sōkaku, 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 clan, the family of Takeda Shingen, and a relatively important and powerful one therefore, in Japan's Sengoku period
  • Takeda Nobutora – daimyō, Shingen's father
  • Takeda Shingen – one of the most famous daimyōs 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
• Yasuhiko Takeda (武田 泰彦, born 1937), Japanese rower
• 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, from Mortal Kombat
• Ittesu Takeda, from Haikyū!!
• Hyouma Takeda, from Gantz

See also

• Takeda (video game)
• Takeda Pharmaceutical Company (Takeda; 武田薬品)

References