Reizei family  The Reizei family (冷泉) is a branch of the clan Fujiwara, with a long poetic tradition. The Reizei family descended from Fujiwara no Michinaga through his sixth son, Nagaie (1005-1064); this line was known by the name of Mikohidari until Tamesuke took the name of Reizei. Nagaie's second son Tadaie (1033-1091) had a second son, Toshitada (1071-1123), whose fourth son Toshinari (also known as Fujiwara no Shunzei, 1114-1204) had a second son, Sadaie (also known as Fujiwara no Teika, 1162-1241), whose third son Tameie (1198-1275) was Reizei Tamesuke's father. The present (25th generation) head of the senior line of the family is Reizei Tamehito (born 1944). For eight centuries, the family secretly preserved, under imperial order, an important collection of documents. On April 4, 1980, this collection of about 200,000 pieces was made public by Tametou Reizei (1914-1986). The following year, a library in Tokyo was created specially for their conservation. Not all of the documents have yet been identified, but certain ones have already been classified as national treasures.  1- Reizei Tamesuke (1263-1328)  2- Reizei Tamehide (d. 1372)  3- Reizei Tamemasa (1361-1417)  4- Reizei Tameyuki (1393-1439)  5- Reizei Tametomi  6- Reizei Tamehiro (1450-1526)  7- Reizei Tamekazu (1486-1549)  8- Reizei Tamemasu (1516-1570)  9- Reizei Tamemitsu (1559-1619)  10- Reizei Tameyori  11- Reizei Tameharu  12- Reizei Tamekiyo  13- Reizei Tametsuna  14- Reizei Tamehisa (1686-1741)  15- Reizei Tamemura (1712-1774)  16- Reizei Tameyasu  17- Reizei Tamefumi (1752-1822)  18- Reizei Tamenori  19- Reizei Tametake  20- Reizei Tametada (1824-1885)  21- Reizei Tamemoto (1854-1905)  22- Reizei Tametsugi (1881-1946)  23- Reizei Tameomi (d. 1944)  24- Reizei Tametou (1914-1986)  25- Reizei Tamehito (1944-)