Runaway Horses - Characters

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