Secondary Characters
- Culum Struan - son of Dirk Struan, second tai-pan, father of Malcolm
- Tess (Hag) Struan - de facto tai-pan of the Noble House
- Gordon Chen - Compradore of the Noble House, illegitimate son of Dirk Struan
- Admiral Charles Ketterer - commander of the British fleet
- Captain Settry Pallidar - captain of the Dragoons
- Dmitri Syborodin - American trader of Cossack descent
- Heatherly Skye - the only solicitor in Japan
- John Canterbury - based on the real-life Charles Lennox Richardson, murdered by Satsuma samurai
- Sir Morgan Brock
- General Thomas Ogilvy
- Isiah Adamson - American Minister
- von Heimrich - Prussian Minister
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