Chiba clan
Tako has been inhabited since prehistoric times, and archaeologists have found dugout canoes and graves from the Jōmon period, and rice paddies from the Yayoi period. The area also has numerous tumuli from the Kofun period, from which "haniwa" pottery has been recovered. During the Heian period, it was divided into "shōen" controlled by the Fujiwara clan and came under the control of the Chiba clan in the Kamakura period. During the Edo period, it was "tenryō" territory within Shimōsa province ruled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate via "hatamoto" administrators.