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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.

Notes

  1. ^ a b 武家家伝＿竹中氏
  2. ^ 竹中氏館
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