Characters
- Yoshitsune
- Benkei - Yoshitsune's loyal retainer
- Shizuka - Yoshitsune's mistress
- Genkurō - a kitsune disguised as Yoshitsune's retainer Satō Tadanobu
- Tomomori - Taira general disguised as shopowner Tokaiya Ginpei
- Koremori - Taira general disguised as Yasuke, adopted son of Yazaemon
- Noritsune - Taira general disguised as a priest
- Kawatsura Hōgen - a priest of Yoshino who hides Yoshitsune
- Satō Tadanobu - a retainer of Yoshitsune
- Shitennō (Suruga Jirō, Kamei Rokurō, Kataoka Hachirō, Ise Saburō) - four of Yoshitsune's retainers, generally considered together in drama, in literature and history.
- Oryū - Ginpei's wife, actually Suke no Tsubone, Emperor Antoku's nursemaid
- Oyasu - Ginpei & Oryū's daughter, actually Emperor Antoku
- Wakaba no Naishi - Koremori's wife
- Rokudai - son of Koremori and Naishi
- Kokingo - retainer to Koremori and Naishi
- Yazaemon - sushi-shop owner
- O-bei - Yazaemon's wife
- Gonta - Yazaemon's son
- Ozato - Yazaemon's daughter, Yasuke's betrothed
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