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Pronunciation
  
Tá-ké-ó

Word/name
  
Japanese

Population
  
50,203 (1 Jan 2012)

Gender
  
Male

Area
  
195.4 km²

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Meaning
  
It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.

Weather
  
6°C, Wind N at 3 km/h, 90% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Mifuneyama garden, Takeo Shrine, Kawagonookusu Park, Mt Kurokami, Kōya‑ji Temple

Takeo (たけお, タケオ) is a common masculine Japanese given name.

Contents

Map of Takeo, Saga Prefecture, Japan

Kanji

Takeo can be written using different kanji and can mean:

  • 武夫, "warrior, man"
  • 武雄, "warrior, brave"
  • 猛雄, "fierce, brave"
  • 健男, "health, man"

    • The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana, especially by young boys who haven't learned kanji yet.

    People with the given name Takeo

  • Takeo Ando (武夫), professional Go player
  • Takeo Arishima (武郎), Japanese novelist
  • Takeo Doi (健郎), Japanese psychoanalyst
  • Takeo Fukuda (赳夫), 67th Prime Minister of Japan
  • Takeo Fukui (威夫), president and CEO of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
  • Takeo Hatanaka (武夫), Japanese astronomer
  • Takeo Hirose (武夫), officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy
  • Takeo Itō (武夫), general in the Imperial Japanese Army
  • Takeo Kajiwara (武雄), Japanese professional Go player
  • Takeo Kanade (武雄), Japanese researcher in Computer Vision
  • Takeo Kawamura (丈夫), Japanese professional baseball player
  • Takeo Kawamura (建夫), Japanese politician
  • Takeo Kikuchi (武夫), Japanese industrial and fashion designer
  • Takeo Kimura (木村 威夫, 1918–2010), Japanese filmmaker
  • Takeo Komatsu (太計雄), Japanese photographer
  • Takeo Kurita (健男), vice-admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy
  • Takeo Miki (武夫), 66th Prime Minister of Japan
  • Takeo Miratsu (健雄), Japanese video game and Anime composer
  • Takeo Nishioka (武夫), Japanese politician
  • Takeo Otsuka (武生), Japanese professional wrestler
  • Takeo Shiota (1881–1943), Japanese-American landscape architect
  • Takeo Spikes, American football linebacker
  • Takeo Takagi (武雄), admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy
  • Takeo Takahashi (丈夫), Japanese animation director
  • Takeo Uesugi (上杉武夫), Japanese-American landscape architect
  • Takeo Yasuda (武雄), general in the Imperial Japanese Army
  • Takeo Yoshikawa (猛夫), Japanese spy

    • Fictional characters with the given name Takeo

  • Takeo Saeki (剛雄), software developer
  • Takeo Masaki, character in Call of Duty: World at War – Zombies
  • Otori Takeo, main character in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn
  • Takeo, mascot for the Nekocon anime convention

    • References

    Takeo Wikipedia
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