Takeda family

Takeda clan 武田氏
The emblem (mon) of the Takeda clan
Home province	Kai
Parent house	Seiwa Genji
Titles	Various
Founder	Minamoto no Yoshikiyo
Final ruler	Takeda Katsuyori
Founding year	12th century
Ruled until	1582, defeat by Oda Nobunaga
Cadet branches	Aki Wakasa Kazusa Matsumae clan Nanbu clan Yanagisawa clan Gotō clan Ogasawara clan Miyako Todomaru clan Akiyama clan

The Takeda clan (武田氏, Takeda-shi^?) was a Japanese clan active from the late Heian Period (794 – 1185). The clan was historically based in Kai Province in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture.

Nobushige, Nobumitsu, Nobuyoshi, Nobutora, Harunobu (Shingen), Katsuyori

The Takeda were descendants of Emperor Seiwa (850-880) and are a branch of the Minamoto clan (Seiwa Genji), by Minamoto no Yoshimitsu (1056–1127), brother to the Chinjufu-shogun Minamoto no Yoshiie (1039–1106). Minamoto no Yoshikiyo (1075? – 1149?), son of Yoshimitsu, was the first to take the name of Takeda.

In the 12th century, at the end of the Heian period, the Takeda family controlled Kai Province. Along with a number of other families, they aided their cousin Minamoto no Yoritomo against the Taira clan in the Genpei War. When Minamoto no Yoritomo was first defeated at Ishibashiyama (1181), Takeda Nobuyoshi was applied for help and the Takeda sent an army of 20,000 men to support Yoritomo. Takeda Nobumitsu (1162–1248), helped the Hōjō during the Shokyu War (1221) and in reward received the governorship of Aki Province. Until the Sengoku period, the Takeda were shugo of Kai, Aki and Wakasa provinces.