In this Japanese name, the surname is Takenaka.

The Takenaka clan (Japanese: 竹中氏, Hepburn: Takenaka-shi) is a Japanese family descended from the Minamoto clan (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 daimyō of the Takada and then Funai Domains (Bungo Province), before having its lands returned to the Shogunate.

Notes

  1. ^ a b 武家家伝＿竹中氏
  2. ^ 竹中氏館

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