Takeda

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Takeda Family Name
Takeda clan mon (coat-of-arms)
Region of origin	Japanese
Popularity	Behind the Name
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Takeda

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)

[edit] 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

[edit] Other uses

• Takeda (video game) is a PC video game based on the life of Takeda Shingen, developed by Magitech Corporation.
• Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a Japanese pharmaceutical company
• Takeda, a character in the Mortal Kombat video games
• Masashi Takeda, a character from My-Hime

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