Gai-Jin (novel) - Principal Characters

Principal Characters

• Malcolm Struan - grandson of Dirk Struan, eldest son of Culum Struan and heir and soon to be tai-pan of the Noble House
• Jamie McFay - manager of Struan's in Japan
• Dr. Ronald Hoag - Struan family physician
• Sir William Aylesbury, KCB - British Chief Minister to the Japans, head of legation
• Dr. George Babcott - British Deputy Minister and surgeon
• Phillip Tyrer - diplomat and apprentice Japanese interpreter
• Norbert Greyforth - head of Brock and Sons in Japan
• Lieutenant John Marlowe - captain of the HMS Pearl, aide-de-camp to Admiral Ketterer
• Edward Gornt - gentleman Shanghai trader from Virginia, illegitimate son of Morgan Brock through Kristian Gornt. It is through Gornt that Brock's descendants continued to flourish in Asia. His great-grandson Quillan Gornt was a major character in Noble House.
• Henri Bonaparte Seratard - French Minister
• André Édouard Poncin, French spy, ostensibly a trader
• Count Alexi Zergeyev - Russian Minister
• Angelique Richaud - beloved of Malcolm Struan, ward of the French Minister
• Lord Toranaga Yoshi - the Guardian of the Heir
• Misamoto - Lord Yoshi's interpreter
• Hiraga - also known as Ukiya, Nakama and Otami, leader of the Choshu shishi
• Shogun Nobusada Toranaga - heir to the title of Shogun and to the Toranaga family; also mentioned in Noble House and Whirlwind
• Lady Yazu, wife of Nobusada, stepsister of Emperor Komei
• Lord Nori Anjo - daimyo of Kii and Mikawa, head of the Council of Elders
• Lord Sanjiro - daimyo of Satsuma
• Katsumata - advisor of Sanjiro and secret head of the shishi
• Lord Ogama - daimyo of Choshu
• Raiko - mama-san of Yokohama's House of the Three Carp
• Ori Ryoma - shishi, leader of a Satsuma cell, obsessed with Angelique
• Sumomo - shishi, Hiraga's fiancée