Takatsukasa family (鷹司家, Takatsukasa-ke) is a Japanese aristocratic kin group.

[1] The Takatsukasa was a branch of the Fujiwara clan[2] and one of the Five regent houses, from which Sesshō and Kampaku could be chosen.

Later in 1579, with the assistance of Oda Nobunaga,[4] the third son of Nijō Haruyoshi took the name Takatsukasa Nobufusa and revived the household.

[1] In 1950, Princess Kazuko, the third daughter of Hirohito (the Emperor Showa) married Toshimichi Takatsukasa, but the couple had no children.

[5] [5] [6] [5][6][7] The Takatsukasa-Matsudaira family (鷹司松平家, Takatsukasa-Matsudaira-ke) was a cadet branch of both Takatsukasa and the Kishū-Tokugawa family, founded by Matsudaira Nobuhira [ja], the youngest son of Takatsukasa Nobufusa.