The parents' house of  Matsuda Seiko is a surname of Kamachi, and it is famous that a real name
of Seiko was  Kamachi Noriko.  The surname of Seiko turned into Kanda and Hatano by marriage,
but a surname of Seiko in a true meaning may say Kamachi.  When Seiko was born, there was
the parents' house in Kurume City, Fukuoka of Kyushu region, and a surname of Kamachi is
known historically in Kyushu. Current Fukuoka was divided into Chikuzen country and Chikugo
country until  the Edo era.  Maximum power of the Middle Ages of the Chikugo country was
Kamachi house. The center of Chikugo country was current Yanagawa City. And the Kamachi house
was the lord of a castle of Yanagawa-Jyo castle in those days.
Kamachi Family is the Sagagenji who makes Minamoto noToru of the advanced noble the first with
the child of the Saga Emperor when the ancestor is looked for.
The hero of the classical masterpiece "GENJI  MONOGATARI" of a study of the Japanese is famous
Hikarugenji  as a handsome man.  MinamotonoToru is the man presumed the real model of Hikarugenji.
Minamoto no Tsuna of the great-grandchild of Minamoto noToru was given as the breeding
Watanabe noTsuna in the Settsu country (present Osaka). Tsuna was a bold samurai, and became
the arm of Minamoto noYorimitsu of Seiwagenji which is the leader of the Japanese samurai, and active.
Hisashi of the child of Tsuna changed to Matsura of Kyushu district, and formed an active samurai group
in the northern sea of Kyushu where it is called a Matsirato.
MatsuraTsubura of the member of the Matsura family changed to Kamachi village of the Chikugo
country, and became the leader of the village.  Then, Hisanao which is the great-grandchild of Tsubura
becomes Zito (the name of the official of the shogunate) of Kamachi village in the Kamakura Period,
and it is the beginning of the Kamachi Family to give one's name as Kamachi  Hisanao.
It is a thing about 1000 years ago from now.

Even if it faced the attack which went into two times of the Mongolian army, the Kamachi Family
of the daimyo (A many retainer be power big samurai house) in the Chikugo fought daringly, and
he was the house where it excelled in Take  abbreviation, and showed a brilliant valiant figure as for
the medieval civil war era as well.  The consciousness of the fair  play of the Kamachi Family
was strong at the same time.  Even if it was an enemy in search of help, the samurai who came were
protected cordially.
The book stated about the civil war era of the Chikugo is being written as follows.
"The climate of the Chikugo was loved, and KamachiAkimori of the bold general who respected
ethics was a pure general."
The interest in the culture of the Kamachi Family was high, too. At present, only Kowakamai (one
of the Japanese medieval public entertainments) is conveyed to Fukuoka in Japan. It was because
the Kamachi Family protected it and it was encouraged.

There is woman's activity in being interesting in the history of the Kamachi Family.  When it meets
in the crisis of the destiny, a woman protects a house many times, and a house revives. And, many
romantic stories settled, and tragic stories are introduced.
A successor's son was not in Kamachi Family the 12th KamachiTakehisa.  The daughter (A name
isn't introduced.) who saw the profile of the father who regrets that a house ends and who feels
sorry saw one day, a strange dream.
She visited a Kora shrine as it was asked by the story of the dream. Then, it met one general who
was in the precincts of the shrine.  A man came here again with the divine message of the dream, too.
It felt destiny for the encounter that two people were strange, and it got married.
A man was the general of the name of Utsunomiya Hisanori. Then, the ancestor whose it was far was
the Fujiwara Family who was the family of the noble of the Japanese maximum.  But, it knew that
the Kamachi Family didn't have a boy's successor, and conferred with her, and became a son-in-law
foster-child.  The Kamachi Family develops greatly after this KamachiHisanori, and grows to
the daimyo who instructs it in the Chikugo country.

Kamachi Shigenami is counted from Hisanori, and it is a man after the 8th. He is the reputed main
Yanagawa castle of the strong castle of No.1 in Kyushu.  Then, the Kamachi Family divided into
the main family and many branch families, and ruled a Chikugo country.  Chikugo country was
the rich district blessed with the harvest.  And, it was RyuzojiTakanobu of the daimyo of the next
country Hizen that put aim.  When it was young, it lost a battle, and Ryuzoji  Takanobu seemed
almost to be killed once.  KamachiAkimori of father of Shigenami helped Takanobu, and it was
protected.  The Kamachi Family was the benefactor of the life for Takanobu.  But, Takanobu that
a Chikugo country was aimed at tried to ruin the Kamachi Family.
Takanobu was attacked first in the forces of 20000 in the Chikugo country.  The soldier of
Takanobu surrounded a Yanagawa castle, and he was attacked violently.  But, the Yanagawa castle
which was the castle of the iron wall repulsed the attack of the Ryuzoji Family many times.
Takanobu withdrew, and the Ryuzoji Family and the Kamachi Family became reconciled.
Takanobu made its daughter marry Shigenami, and both houses became related to the relative.
Father of the person's good sense of duty was pretended with Takanobu.  After the Kamachi Family
was made to be relieved, Takanobu invited Shigenami which became the son of the sense of duty
to the country.  Though it watched out for Shigenami, the invitation of father of the sense of duty
couldn't be declined.  Tamatsuru of the daughter of Takanobu loved husband's Shigenami.
She doubted it when the plot that father was dirty might be plotted.  Shigenami was after it
already left when she tried to say the thing to the husband.
200 retainers of life guard chosen specially were taken, and Shigenami entered a Hizen country.
The big force of RyuzojiTakanobu that it was hiding and stand by attacked Shigenami all together.
The bodyguards of Shigenami were strong person sets, and resisted it violently.  But, companions
were many, and Shigenami that the power was exhausted killed itself.  The army of Ryuzoji Takanobu
attacked a Yanagawa castle again next.  The guards of the Yanagawa castle where a master was lost
fought violently.  Ryuzoji Takanobu used a mean dirty means even here.  Takanobu assured that
the person of the Kamachi Family with the obligation was protected.  Then, he made the person
of the Kamachi Family made defense-less condition massacre.
The Kamachi Family of the noble family of the Chikugo country fell with such particulars.

But, one daughter of Shigenami was living.
She was the first wife's daughter of Shigenami.  It was a 17-year-old beautiful woman who had
a strong character.  The method read though a letter is different did curious things, and a name
was the same as the real name of the spider Matsuda Seiko, and it was Kamachi Noriko.
The army of the Ryuzoji Family who occupied a Yanagawa was searching the remnants of a party
of the Kamachi Family who hides. The Ryuzoji army was laying a thick surrounding net on the
Yanagawa castle area. The surrounding net of the Ryuzoji army was broken through together
with some retainers, and Noriko escaped to Nagasaki's Arima Family. The Arima Family was
threatened again by the Ryuzoji Family, too, and he had hostility.  Therefore the Arima Family
met Noriko cordially, and he was protected.
After that, Noriko changed to the Buzen country which the Ootomo Family controlled.
The Ootomo Family was in the relations opposed to the Ryuzoji Family again, too.
Noriko became the daughter-in-law of the Kutami Family who is the family of the Ootomo Family
in the Buzen country.
Noriko was blessed with the gentle husband and the son, and it spent happy time.  But, her breast
chopsticks were put when it thought of the end of the Kamachi Family. The grandchild of three boys
was in Noriko.  She made one person Shigeaki of the grandchildren give the family name
of the Kamachi.  It did like this, and the house of the Kamachi revived.  The descendant produced
a doctor and a writer, and it began to produce him again from the local chief of Edo shogunate to
the mentor example of the martial arts.
Matsuda Seiko who is Kamachi Noriko of one more person is one of the descendants, too.
It fell in the civil war era, and the name of the Kamachi Family buried in the history appeared
before the people, and it was just recently that the history was introduced.  The family tree conveyed
to the 43rd descendant of the Kamachi Family in the song program in 1984 which a Matsuda Seiko
appeared on was introduced easily.  However it was the tall idol of the popularity, and a young song
princess was a Matsuda Seiko at that time.
The Matsuda Seiko who told the world the Kamachi Family who disappeared into the history again
will be the "third woman" who follows the daughter of KamachiTakehisa and KamachiNoriko
in the history of the Kamachi Family.

The indication of the name in English is "SeikoMatsuda". But, it was written here in accordance
with Japanese indication with the "Matsuda Seiko".

Song program  of 1984.

Family tree of the Kamachi Family.

The monument of the mark of the Kamachi castle and the gravestone (Sukyuji temple)
of the Kamachi Family.
Both are in Kamachi town in the suburb of Yanagawa City of Fukuoka Prefecture.

The Kamachi whole families.History,Genealogy,Historic spot.(蒲池氏の歴史・系譜・史跡)