by Gai-Jin(Lit)
Minister to the Japans
ANDR`E EDOUARD PONCIN, 38, trader, secret spy for the French Legation
COUNT ALEXI ZERGEYEV, 35, Tsarist
Minister to the Japans
ANGELIQUE RICHAUD, 18, beloved of
MALCOLM STRUAN, daughter of GUY
RICHAUD, French China trader, ward of the
French Minister
The Japanese
LORD TORANAGA YOSHI, 26, descendent of SH@OGUN TORANAGA, member of the
Council of Elders, Guardian of the
Heir, the boy Sh@ogun
KOIKO, 22, Tayu, the highest possible rank of geisha, his ai-jin (love person)
LADY HISAKO, 29, his wife
INEJIN, 42, innkeeper and his spymaster
MISAMOTO, 31, fisherman, convict, his make-believe samurai, a secret
American-speaking interpreter
SH@OGUN NOBUSADA, 16, the 14th
Toranaga Sh@ogun
PRINCESS YAZU, 16, his wife, stepsister of Emperor Komei
LORD ANJO, 46, daimyo of Kii, head of the Council of Elders
LORD SANJIRO, 42, daimyo of Satsuma
KATSUMATA, 36, his most trusted advisor, also called the Raven, and secret head of the shishi
LORD OGAMA, 28, daimyo of Choshu
LORD HIRO, 28, daimyo of Tosa
WAKURA, 46, Lord Chancellor to the
Imperial Court in Ky@oto
MEIKIN, 44, KOIKO'S mama-san of
Yedo's House of Wisteria
RAIKO, 42, mama-san of Yokohama's
House of Three Carp
FUJIKO, 17, courtesan, sought by PHILLIP TYRER
NEMI, 23, courtesan, JAMIE
MCFAY'S ai-jin
HINODEH, 24, courtesan, ANDR`E
PONCIN'S ai-jin the shishi (persons of courage), cells of revolutionary samurai idealists, fanatically xenophobic and anti-gai-jin:
HIRAGA, 22, leader of all Choshu shishi, also called UKIYA, NAKAMA,
OTAMI
AKIMOTO, 24, of Choshu, his cousin
ORI, 17, leader of a Satsuma cell
SHORIN, 19, of Satsuma, his deputy
SUMOMO, 16, SHORIN'S sister, also shishi, HIRAGA'S wife-to-be
The End