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Amano Tenzo: a Shirakawa retainer (I)

Shoji Kiyoshi: senior retainer to Lord Shirakawa (I)

The Tribe

THE MUTO FAMILY Muto Kenji: Takeo’s teacher, the Master (I) Muto Shizuka: Kenji’s niece,
Arai’s mistress, and Kaede’s companion (I) Zenko, Taku: her sons (3)
Muto Seiko: Kenji’s wife (2) Muto Yuki: their daughter (I) Muto Yuzuru: a cousin (2)

Kana(3) Miyabi: maids (3)

THE KIKUTA FAMILY Kikuta Isamu: Takeo’s real father (d.) Kikuta Kotaro: his cousin, the Master
(I) Kikuta Gosaburo: Kotaro’s younger brother (2) Kikuta Akio: their nephew (I) Kikuta Hajime: a
wrestler (2) Sadako: a maid (2)

THE KURODA FAMILY Kuroda Shintaro: a famous assassin (I) Kondo Küchi (2) Imai Kazuo (2)
Kudo Keiko (2)

Lord Fujiware: a nobleman, exiled from the capital (2) Mamoru: his protege and companion (2) Ono
Rieko: his cousin (3) Murita: a retainer (3)

Matsuda Shingen: the abbot at Terayama (2) Kubo Makoto: a monk, Takeo’s closest friend (I)

Jin-emon: a bandit (3) Jiro: a farmer’s son (3) Jo-An: an outcast (I)

orses

Raku: gray with black mane and tail, Takeo’s first horse, given by him to Kaede

Kyu: black, Shigeru’s horse, disappeared in Inuyama Aoi: black, half brother to Kyu Ki: Amano’s
chestnut Shun: Takeo’s bay, a very clever horse

bold = main characters

(I, 2, 3) = character’s first appearance in Book I, 2, or

(d.) = character died before the start of Book I

On nights when, wind mixing in, the rain jails, On nights -when, rain mixing in, the snow jails

YAMANOUE NO OKURAt a dialogue on poverty.

from the country of the eight islands trans: hiroaki sato

Kaede lay deeply asleep in the state close to unconsciousness that the Kikuta can deliver with their gaze.
The night passed, the stars paled as dawn came, the sounds of the temple rose and fell around her, but
she did not stir. She did not hear her companion, Shizuka, call anxiously to her from time to time, trying
to wake her. She did not feel Shizuka’s hand on her forehead. She did not hear Lord Arai Daüchi’s men
as they came with increasing impatience to the veranda, telling Shizuka that the warlord was waiting to