Takeda clan (Aki)

Aki Takeda clan
The emblem (mon) of the Takeda clan
Home provinceAki
Parent houseTakeda clan
TitlesVarious
FounderTakeda Ujinobu
Founding year14th century
Cadet branchesWakasa
Site of Kanayama Castle (Hiroshima Prefecture), a huge mountain castle surrounded by 50 kuruwa (defense walls), on top the 411m of Mt Takeda, built at the end of the Kamakura period, seat of the Aki Takeda

The Takeda clan of Aki Province was a cadet branch of the famed Takeda clan of the Kai Province of Imperial Japan, descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880) and the Minamoto clan (Seiwa Genji). The Takeda of Wakasa were a branch of the Takeda of Aki.


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