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Characters By Chapter
EDITOR:
Jeffrey Hale
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CH FIRST NAME LAST NAME DESCRIPTION
1    October 1948
 Akira Sugimura One of the city's most respected and influential men.
 Setsuko   Ono's eldest daughter.
 Masuji Ono Retired artist and teacher.
 Kenji   Ono's son who was killed during the war.
 Miss Sugimura Akira's daughter.
 Noriko   Ono's younger daughter.
 Ichiro   Setsuko's son.
 Mr Mori Ono's visitor.
 Suichi   Setsuko's husband.
 Mrs Kawakami Bar owner.
 Shintaro   Ono's former student.
     Obasan - meaning 'aunt'.
 Yoshio   Shintaro's brother.
     Migi-Hidari - a bar in the old district before the war
 Kuroda   A brilliant young man in school. Ono's former protégé.
 Murasaki   One of the brilliant young men in school.
 Tanaka   One of the brilliant young men in school.
      Oji - used by a child to address unrelated adult male.
 Lord Yoshitsune Was a military commander of the Minamoto clan of Japan.
 Urayama   An artist.
 Miyamoto Musashi Japanese philosopher.
 Mrs Watanabe Deer park owner.
 Sachiko   Ono's mother.
 Jiro Miyake Noriko's ex fiancé.
     Harakiri - Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment.
 Hirayama boy   Boy with Hirayama disease a.k.a. monomelic amyotrophy.
 Yamagata   An old veteran soldier.
 Masayuki Harada Painter. One of Ono's colleagues.
 Misumi   Playwright. One of Ono's colleagues.
 Shigeo Otsuji Journalist. One of Ono's colleagues.
 Eiji Nastuki Journalist. One of Ono's colleagues.
 Master Takeda Takeda firm owner.
 Yasunari Nakahara A new artist in Takeda firm. Aka: The Tortoise.
 Seiji Moriyama Painter and printmaker.
 Dr Saito Taro's father.
 Mr Kyo Ono and Saito's mutual friend.
 Chishu Matsuda Worked for the Okada-Shingen Society.
 Michiko   Ono's late wife.
 Miss Suzuki Matsuda's housekeeper and nurse.
 Nakane   Principal at Minami Imperial College.
2    April 1949
 Mr Ogawa Host of the engagement party.
 Taro Saito Noriko's fiancé.
 Enchi   Kuroda's protégé.
 Matsumoto   An artist.
 Mitsuo   Dr Saito's younger son.
3    November 1949
 Emperor Taisho Former emperor of Japan.
 Seiji Moriyama Ono's former teacher. Aka: Morisan.
 Sasaki Morisan's leading pupil.
 Maki   A story-teller.
 Gisaburo   Morisan's old friend.
 Yukio Naguchi A composer who committed suicide.
 Mr Hayasaka Taro's colleague.
4    June 1950
 Botchan   Matsuda's neighbor.
 
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