Takenaka clan
The emblem (mon) of the Takenaka clan
In this Japanese name, the family name is "Takenaka".
The Takenaka clan (竹中氏 Takenaka-shi) is a Japanese family descended from the Seiwa Genji line's Toki branch.[1]
The family, with holdings in the Fuwa district of Mino Province, was founded by Iwate Shigeuji, who was the first to take the name Takenaka.[1]
Perhaps most famed during the headship of the strategist Takenaka Shigeharu (Hanbei), the family became hatamoto under Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Edo era.[2] Takenaka Shigekata, the family head in the Bakumatsu era, was a famous field commander during the Boshin War.
A branch of the Takenaka family was until 1634 daimyo of the Takada and then Funai Domains (Bungo province), before having its lands returned to the Shogunate.