Takenaka clan 竹中
The emblem (mon) of the Takenaka clan
Home province	Mino Bungo
Parent house	Minamoto clan Toki clan
Titles	Various
Founder	Takenaka Shigeuji

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.

• (in Japanese) Photos of the Takenaka clan's Edo-era residence of Iwate Castle