Characters in Chûshingura

Underlined = "real" people from the 14th c. sekai (dramatic world)

Not underlined = fictional people from the 14th c. sekai (i.e. characters used in previous plays)

** = characters Chikamatsu invented

 Akô Incident
Ko no MORONAO (d. 1351) Lord KIRA (shogun official)
Sagisaka BANNAI
  
 
  
Momonoi WAKASANOSUKE Yasuchika  
Kakogawa HONZÔ (head retainer)
  

TONOSE (Honzô's wife)

  

KONAMI (Honzô's daughter, fiance of Rikiya)

 
  
   
Enya HANGAN Takasada (died 1341) Lord ASANO (forced to commit suicide)
KAOYO (nameless wife)
  

**OKARU (wife of Kanpei)

  

**HEIMON (her brother)

  
Ôboshi YURANOSUKE (Yawata Rokurô)
 Ôishi Kuranosuke (Asano's head retainer)

RIKIYA (his son)

 Chikara (his son)
**Hayano KANPEI (husband of Okaru)
  
   
**Amakawaya GIHEI (merchant)