Matsui Tune, the wife of Kondo Isamu, was born in as the eldest daughter of Matsui Yasugoro, a shogunate retainer. In the first year of Man'en, at the age of 23, she entered into an arranged marriage with Isamu Kondo, and two years later gave birth to their first daughter, Tama.
The disciples of Kondo said that he chose an ugly woman to be his wife because he would not be able to devote himself to his training with a beautiful woman.
Kyutaro later joined the army during the Russo-Japanese War and died of illness. When Kondo returned to Edo after his defeat in the Battle of Toba-Fushimi, he said he was looking forward to seeing his wife and children on the ship and had a silver ring as a souvenir for Tsune. Kondo, who had many concubines in Kyoto, was also kind to his wife. In Kyoto, Kondo, on the other hand, was able to make a lot of money as the head of the Shinsengumi, and he began to fish for beautiful prostitutes and courtesans in Kyoto and Osaka and began to surround himself with them.
Next was a geiko named Ueno of Kamishichiken. At the age of 14, he went to work at a teahouse in Sambongi, Kyoto, and moved to Shimabara at the age of He was immediately taken in by a servant and kept in a house near Ikedaya in Kyoto, where he was arrested by the Shinsengumi and became acquainted with Kondo.
Miyukitayu lived there with his sister, Otaka, but while Miyukitayu was away for treatment for rheumatism, Kondo had relations with her. When Miyukitayu realized this, Kondo gave him ryo in compensation, and he withdrew and bought a teahouse in Shimabara.
