Characters
- Major characters
- Shigekuni Honda (1895–1975)
- Keiko Hisamatsu
- Tōru Yasunaga (b. March 20, 1954)
- Kinue, an insane girl (b. 1949)
- Furusawa, one of Tōru's three tutors
- Shigehisa and Taeko Hamanaka
- Momoko Hamanaka, their daughter
- Nagisa, a woman Tōru plays against Momoko
- Tsune, a maid hired by Tōru
- The Abbess of the Gesshuji, formerly Ayakura Satoko (b. 1893)
- Minor characters
- Two White Russian women, a retired businessman and a teacher of flower-arranging
- An old man who stabs a woman in the park and the interviewing policeman
- A fellow voyeur
- A shipping superintendent
- Nuns of the Gesshū Convent, and a steward
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