Takeda

This article is about people with the family name Takeda. For other uses, see Takeda (disambiguation).

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

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* 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 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
* 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

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* Masashi Takeda, from My-Hime
* Takashi Takeda, from Yotsuba&!
* Gohee Takeda, from Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin
* Takeda Takahashi, from Mortal Kombat
* Ittesu Takeda, from Haikyū!!
* Hyouma Takeda, from Gantz
* Keiichiro "Take" Takeda, from Gender-Swap at the Delinquent Academy
* Aimi Takeda, also from Gender-Swap at the Delinquent Academy
* Ijuro Takeda, from The Hunted

## See also

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

## References

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

Surname list

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