title: Takenaga
text: # Takenaga
  
  Takenaga is a Japanese surname and masculine given name. It can be written with a few different kanji, for example bamboo–eternal (竹永) and martial–chief (武長).
  
  ## People with the surname
  
  * Barbara Takenaga (born 1949), abstract painter
  * Takenaga Hayato (竹永 隼人), founder of the Yagyū Shingan-ryū martial arts tradition
  * Masaharu Takenaga, commander of the World-War-II Japanese battalion that surrendered in the Takenaga incident
  
  ## Fictional characters with the given name
  
  * Takenaga Oda (織田 武長), character in the manga The Wallflower
  