Characters
Strong allusions are made throughout the play to comparisons between the 12th century figures of the tale and those (absent from the play) who took part in the siege of Osaka. Each character is given here with their 17th century counterpart in parentheses.
- Minamoto no Yoritomo (Tokugawa Ieyasu)
- Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Toyotomi Hideyori)
- Gonnotō Kanefusa (Katagiri Katsumoto)
- Izumi no Saburō (Sanada Yukimura)
- Kamei no Rokurō (Kimura Shigenari)
- Kataoka no Hachirō (Gotō Mototsugu)
- Kyō no Kimi/Shizuka Gozen (Yodo-Dono)
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