or a son according to theories) of Takeda Shigekiyo (†1541) of the Aki Takeda. As a close advisor of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he received in 1585 a fiefdom of 23,000 koku in Iyo Province after the Shikoku campaign. And in 1586, after the conquest of Kyushu, his holdings were expanded to 60,000 koku. At the Battle of Sekigahara (1600), he sided with the western army against Tokugawa Ieyasu, and was condemned to death, along with Ishida Mitsunari and Konishi Yukinaga. During the Tokugawa period, the Harada and the Yamaguchi families, samurai of the Asano clan (Daimyō of Hiroshima), descended from the Takeda of Aki. According to the Yamaguchi family, the three most important strongholds that belonged to the Takeda of Aki were Kanayama castle (seen above), Kitsune castle and Ato castle (all in Aki province). Takeda clan