In the fourth year of Keio (1868), defeated retainers sought to restore the Tokugawa shogunate with the help of Enomoto Takeaki's navy. Honda Koroiku was one of them. He discreetly handed a departure note to his fiancée, Otosei, the daughter of Matsudaira Soebe, and left Edo. Otosei's cousin and Koroiku's friend, Domae Daikichi, was once a brave warrior of the shogunate army. However, he had since fallen into a life of debauchery in Yanagibashi and was rumored to be involved with a geisha named Orikki.
本田小六
堂前大吉
芸者おりき
お登勢
お蝶
松平掃部
妻むら
醍醐光長
中島恒次郎
船頭新兵衛
総督府参謀吉田
官軍隊長黒岩
官吏関根
官吏打越
家主
古道具屋主人
船頭甲
船頭乙
幇問桜川蝶作
米つき徳松
浪人甲
浪人乙
浪人首領
料亭女将