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

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