In the 15th year of the Meiji era (1882), Ōkuma Shigenobu, expelled from the Council of State by the Satsuma-Chōshō clique, poured his personal fortune into establishing the Tokyo Professional School in a tea field in Waseda Village. With seven professors, including Takada Sanae and Tsubouchi Yūzō, and eighty-seven students, government interference extended even to finances; Ono Azusa, who tirelessly worked to secure funding, died from overwork.
Ōkuma Shigenob
Wife Ayako
Koganei Daisuke
Suginoe Kōji
Guest Nomura
Ono Azusa (1884)
Takada Sanae (1884)
Kurishima Tsuneki, assassin
Marie
Namishima Gen'ichi
Takami Gōhei
Hotani Nitarō
Tsubouchi Yūzō
Guest Watanabe
Student Mizuno
Detective
Nishikata Gensuke
Kageyama Haruo
Female Student
Namishima Keikichi
Younger Brother Susumu
Kitade Miki
Sozaki Sanzō