Takenaka clan
Takenaka clan 竹中 | |
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Home province | Mino Bungo |
Parent house | Toki clan |
Titles | Various |
Founder |
The Takenaka clan (Japanese: 竹中氏, Hepburn: 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 , 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 daimyō of the Takada and then Funai Domains (Bungo Province), before having its lands returned to the Shogunate.
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