Takeda

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

Takeda

Mon of the Takeda clan
Pronunciation	Japanese pronunciation: [takeda]

Takeda (武田, 竹田, 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)

People

• 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
• Paulo Takeda (武田 パウロ, born 2001), medic

Fictional characters

• 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

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