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
Mon of the Takeda clan

People edit

  • Daisaku Takeda (武田 大作, born 1973), Japanese rower
  • Genyo Takeda (竹田 玄洋, born 1949), retired Japanese game designer and executive
  • Hisayoshi Takeda (武田 久吉, 1883–1972), Japanese botanist
  • Kumiko Takeda (武田 久美子, born 1968), Japanese actress
  • Larissa Tago Takeda (武田 羅梨沙 多胡), Japanese voice actress
  • Masashi Takeda (wrestler) (竹田 誠志, born 1985), Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
  • Misae Takeda (武田 美佐江, born 1943), Japanese speed skater
  • Nana Takeda (武田 奈也, born 1988), Japanese figure skater
  • Sachihiko Takeda (武田 幸彦, born 1937), Japanese sport wrestler
  • Satoshi Takeda (武田 聡, born 1968), Japanese swimmer
  • Shinzaburo Takeda, Mexican artist
  • Shogo Takeda (竹田 渉瑚, born 1995), Japanese swimmer
  • Takeda Sōkaku (武田 惣角, 1859–1943), 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 Nobutoradaimyō, 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
  • Toyoki Takeda (武田 豊樹, born 1974), Japanese speed skater
  • Tsunekazu Takeda (竹田 恆和, born 1947), Japanese retired equestrian, former member of the IOC
  • Yasuhiko Takeda (武田 泰彦, born 1937), Japanese rower
  • Yūkichi Takeda (武田 祐吉, 1886–1958) scholar of Japanese Literature

Fictional characters edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ 1990 Census Name Files Archived 2010-10-07 at the Library of Congress Web Archives