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Takeya

family name

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ7678182 ↗
Source-derived summary

Takeya (written: 偉弥, 剛也) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:

Asasegawa Takeya (淺瀬川 剛也) (born 1942), Japanese sumo wrestler

Takeya Mizugaki (水垣 偉弥) (born 1983), Japanese mixed martial artist

Takeya Nakamura (中村 剛也) (born 1983), Japanese baseball player

Takeya (written: 竹谷, 竹屋 or 武谷) is also a Japanese surname.

Editorial summary

“Takeya” enters the record as family name. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Takeya, family and name can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Takeya, family and name.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Takeya” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Takeya, family and name provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7678182. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1942 and 1983.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Takeya”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Takeya primary sources, Takeya archive and Takeya research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Takeya”?
  2. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
  3. What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Takeya” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.