Characters
- Major characters
- Shigekuni Honda
- His wife Rié, married in 1922
- Isao Iinuma (1914-33)
- Shigeyuki Iinuma, Isao's father, Kiyoaki's former tutor
- Lieutenant Hori, a right-wing celebrity
- Lieutenant-General Kensuké Kito (retired), a poet
- Makiko Kito, his divorced daughter, who is in love with Isao
- Prince Harunori Toin
- Judge Murakami, a friend of Honda
- Judge Sugawa, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, and a kendo enthusiast
- Tsuboi, a police detective and 2nd-level kendoist
- Master Kaido Masugi, a lecturer for the Academy of Patriotism
- An official sent to Honda by Prince Toin
- Judge Hisamatsu, who tries Isao and his companions
- The unnamed prosecutor
- Reikichi Kitazaki, the old innkeeper
- Lieutenant Miura, also at the inn (mentioned by Kitazaki but never seen)
- The Matsugaes, the Matsudairas, the Minister of State and his wife
- Baroness Shinkawa and Mrs. Kurahara
- Capitalists
- Baron Tōru Shinkawa
- Busuké Kurahara
- Juemon Nagasaki
- Nobuhisa Masuda, Shonosuké Yagi, Hiroshi Teramoto, Zembei Ota, Ryuichi Kamiya, Minoru Gota, Sadataro Matsubara, Genjiro Takai, and Toshikazu Kobinata are added to the list by Sawa
- Showa League
- Isao Iinuma
- Sawa, a 40-year-old student at the Academy
- Izutsu and Sagara, the two schoolfriends of Isao
- Hasegawa and Serikawa, along with Sagara and the nine who back out, were to attack transformer substations
- Miyaké, Miyahara, Kimura and Fujita were to help Isao and Izutsu with the three original assassinations
- Takasé and Inoué, Army officers
- Lieutenant Hori and First Lieutenant Shiga of the Air Force
- Seyama, Tsujimura, Yoneda, Sakakibara, Horié, Mori, Ohashi, Takahashi, Ui
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