Akō 赤穂

Tier 1 · The Brains / Grand Strategist

Ōishi Kuranosuke Yoshikata 大石内蔵助良雄

Age 44 · Chief Councilor (Karō), 1,500 koku · Starts: Akō Castle

History & Role: Oversaw the peaceful surrender of Akō Castle, the 60% hansatsu note redemption, the ~700-ryō conspiracy ledger, and the fifteen-month petition to restore Asano Daigaku. Divorced his pregnant wife Riku to shield her family from collective punishment (enza), feigned drunken dissipation in Gion to lull Uesugi spies, culled the league at Maruyama from ~120 to 47, and commanded the Front Gate on 12.14. In battle, a battlefield conductor whose whistle signals grant bonus AP and Guard poise.

Tier 1 · The Heavy Basher / Shock Breacher

Fuwa Kazuemon Masatane 不破数右衛門正種

Age 33 · Former Construction Magistrate, 100 koku (Banished) · Starts: Edo Outcast

History & Role: Banished by Asano Naganori years before 1701 for violent misconduct, Fuwa lived as a destitute rōnin in Edo until he begged Ōishi at Sengaku-ji to let him rejoin his former comrades. On 12.14 he fought the most ferocious indoor close-quarters battle of the raid, cutting down multiple defenders until his blade was notched like a saw. Charges straight through fusuma partitions and thrives when surrounded.

Tier 1 · The Celebrity Duelist / Agitator

Horibe Yasubei Taketsune 堀部安兵衛武庸

Age 32 · Umag廻 (Edo Radical Leader), 200 koku · Starts: Edo Mansion

History & Role: An overnight Edo celebrity after the 1694 Takadanobaba duel, adopted into the Horibe house for his peerless swordsmanship. Close friend of Confucian scholar Hosoi Kōtaku and leader of the Edo radicals demanding an immediate strike without waiting for Ōishi. Highest single-target lethality and turn speed in the league—paired with passive recognition Heat because every informant in Edo knows his face.

Tier 1 · The Long-Distance Sniper / Marksman

Kayano Wasuke Tsunenari 萱野和助常成

Age 36 · Bow Officer (Yumi-dōshin), 15 koku 5 fuchi · Starts: Akō Castle

History & Role: Official Akō archery officer who served in the perimeter bow teams on 12.14 that pinned Kira’s retainers inside their quarters and intercepted messengers along the walls. Perches on compound roofs with a full yumi or indoor hankyū half-bow, shoots out oil lanterns at eight tiles to plunge rooms into darkness, and suppresses two doorway targets at once.

Tier 1 · The Reach Precision Striker

Hazama Jūjirō Mitsuoki 間十次郎光興

Age 25 · Spear Specialist (Ichiban-yari), 100-koku family · Starts: Edo Mansion

History & Role: Young Hōzōin-ryū spearman who discovered Kira Yoshihisa crouched inside the rear charcoal shed (sumigoya) on 12.14 and delivered the decisive first spear thrust (ichiban-yari). Excels at two-tile corridor control and threading lethal spear thrusts through closed shōji paper screens using acoustic and silhouette cues.

Tier 1 · The Charismatic Face / Chameleon

Ōtaka Gengo Tadao 大高源吾忠雄

Age 30 · Wardrobe Master (Kinju), 20 koku 5 fuchi · Starts: Akō Castle

History & Role: Celebrated haikai poet under the pen name Shiyō (子葉) and friend of Bashō’s pupil Takarai Kikaku. Entered Edo disguised as Kyoto merchant Wakisaka Shinbei and penetrated the tea and poetry circles around Kira to confirm the 12.14 year-end tea gathering. Walks into aristocratic salons where rough swordsmen are barred, making him the natural lead for the Deep Cover / Quiet Knife path.

Tier 1 · The Stealth Rogue / Night Burglar

Sugino Jūheiji Tsugifusa 杉野十平次次房

Age 26 · Treasury Clerk (Fudasashi), 8 ryō 3 fuchi · Starts: Edo Mansion

History & Role: Poured his personal family savings into the Edo cell’s operations, leased the crucial Honjo staging safehouses beside Kira’s compound, scouted the walls at night, and swung the wooden mallet (kakeya) that smashed open the Rear Gate on 12.14. Completes solo nonlethal Grapple → Mouth-Cover → Bind takedowns in a single turn and ignores creaking nightingale-floor penalties.

Tier 1 · The Spymaster / Cover Shopkeeper

Maebara Isuke Munefusa 前原伊助宗房

Age 38 · Granary Magistrate (Kura-bugyō), 10 koku 3 fuchi · Starts: Edo Honjo

History & Role: Opened the Misakiya (美作屋) sundry and cloth shop in Honjo Aioi-chō directly across from Kira’s gate alongside Kanzaki Yogorō. Sold daily goods to Kira’s household servants, tracked every delivery cart and guard rotation, and mapped the compound from merchant gossip. Turns customer deliveries into floorplan intelligence—or faces the temptation to stay a Honjo shopkeeper and protect his neighbors.

Tier 1 · The Ghost Courier / Ashigaru Survivor

Terasaka Kichiemon Nobuyuki 寺坂吉右衛門信行

Age 37 · Ashigaru Foot-Soldier, 3 ryō 2 fuchi · Starts: Akō Castle

History & Role: The sole non-samurai (ashigaru) among the 47, serving under Yoshida Chūzaemon. Answered the roll call at Kira’s gate on 12.14, vanished before the surrender at Sengaku-ji to carry word to Hiroshima and Yozeiin, and lived to age 83. Because high-ranking samurai look right past a working-class porter, Terasaka slips through service doors and runs orders between out-of-contact cells.

Tier 1 · The Quartermaster / Forensic Fixer

Okajima Yasoemon Tsuneshige 岡島八十右衛門常樹

Age 36 · Note Magistrate (Satsugashira), 20 koku 5 fuchi · Starts: Akō Castle

History & Role: Younger brother of Akō’s corrupt second councilor Ōno Kurobei. Executed the 60% hansatsu note redemption, confronted his elder brother before Ōno fled by night abandoning his infant granddaughter, sheltered the child, and joined the Edo plotters. Weaponizes the three-metal currency exchange and redeems comrades’ pawned heirlooms at a 40% discount.

Tier 1 · The Deputy Commander / Tactician

Yoshida Chūzaemon Kanesuke 吉田忠左衛門兼亮

Age 61 · Ashigaru-gashira & Military Scholar, 200 koku · Starts: Akō Castle

History & Role: Ōishi’s trusted deputy and Edo field commander; scholar of military science who led the Rear-Gate detachment alongside fifteen-year-old Ōishi Chikara and walked to Chief Inspector Sengoku Hisanao on the morning of 12.15 to present the formal self-denunciation (jishu). Keeps autonomous cells disciplined under fire and anchors legal arguments in the Act V tribunal.

Tier 1 · The Elder Iron Anchor

Horibe Yahei Kanamaru 堀部弥兵衛金丸

Age 76 · Retired Edo Liaison (Edo Rusui), 300 koku · Starts: Edo Mansion

History & Role: The oldest participant in the raid at seventy-six years old, adoptive father of Horibe Yasubei, and unshakeable pillar of the Edo faction. Slower on the action clock (`SPD 12`), but boasts the highest Composure (`30`) and frontal Guard poise in the league—nearly impossible to Guard-Break in a narrow corridor or doorway.

Tier 1 · The Household Steward & Legal Shield

Ōishi Riku (Kōrin-in) 大石りく（香林院）

Age 33 · Wife of Ōishi Kuranosuke & Daughter of Toyooka Chief Karō · Starts: Akō / Yamashina

History & Role: Daughter of Toyooka Domain’s chief councilor Ishizuka Gengobei. Oversaw the evacuation from Akō to Yamashina, and in the spring of 1702—while pregnant with her youngest son Daizaburō—accepted a legal divorce (rien) from Kuranosuke so their younger children would be shielded from the shogunate’s collective punishment statute (enza). Lived to see the 1709 amnesty and moved to Hiroshima in 1713 when Daizaburō was restored to his father’s exact 1,500-koku stipend. Commands correspondence, dowry logistics with Lady Yōzen-in, and the Legal Restoration / Survivor campaign paths.

Tier 2 · Customizable Historical Retainer

Takebayashi Tadashichi Takashige 武林唯七隆重

Age 31 · Umag廻, 15 koku 3 fuchi · Full 49-Pt Attribute & 40-SP Creator

History & Build Hook: Grandson of a Ming Chinese physician and emigrant (Meng Erkan / Watanabe) who settled in Hiroshima. Entered the rear charcoal shed alongside Hazama Jūjirō on 12.14 and struck the fatal sword blow to Kira Yoshihisa. Ideal for players who want an attested hero of the final room with complete freedom to build a physician-swordsman or heavy vanguard.

Tier 2 · Customizable Historical Retainer

Katsuta Shinzaemon Taketaka 勝田新左衛門武尭

Age 23 · Junior Page (Chūkoshō), 15 koku 3 fuchi · Full 49-Pt Attribute & 40-SP Creator

History & Build Hook: Young Edo-based retainer who survived during the preparation months by peddling radishes and melons through the streets of Honjo. His father-in-law famously hid his raid summons letter in a desperate attempt to save his life—making Katsuta the ultimate point-buy canvas for testing the tension between domestic survival and the blood oath.

Tier 2 · Customizable Historical Retainer

Mimura Jirōzaemon Kanetsune 三村次郎左衛門包常

Age 36 · Kitchen & Sake Officer (Daidokoro-bugyō), 7 koku 2 fuchi · Full Point-Buy

History & Build Hook: Low-ranking kitchen and sake-cellar bailiff on a meager seven-koku stipend who spoke out fiercely at Akō Castle when higher-ranked councilors hesitated, and helped smash open Kira’s Rear Gate with the heavy wooden mallet on 12.14. Can be built as a food-and-sake delivery infiltrator or a working-class shock brawler.

Tier 2 · Customizable Dojo Daughter & Courier

Horibe Hori (Myōkai-ni Tradition) 堀部ほり（妙海尼伝承）

Age 17 · Daughter of Horibe Yahei & Betrothed of Yasubei · Full 49-Pt Point-Buy

History & Build Hook: Attested daughter of veteran Horibe Yahei and bride of celebrity swordsman Horibe Yasubei in Edo; later 18th-century tradition (Red/Gold Ink) also links her name to the nun Myōkai-ni who tended the Sengaku-ji graves into her nineties. Trained in the household naginata, Hori slips past Edo ward checkpoints that scrutinize masterless men, carries encrypted funds from Lady Yōzen-in’s Akasaka residence, and coordinates with Honjo carpenter’s daughter Otsuya.

Tier 1 · The Master Tactician / Disguised Elder

Kobayashi Heihachirō Hisamichi 小林平八郎央通

Age 54 · Senior Kira Karō, 150 koku · Starts: Kira Gofukubashi

History & Role: Senior household councilor transferred from the Uesugi house with Kira’s wife Tomiko; oversaw the relocation to Honjo. In the contemporary Ōkōchi-bunsho, when cornered in the dark on 12.14 he claimed to be a low-ranking servant until a rōnin felt his silk undergarment (kinu no shita-gi), then died fighting near the inner quarters. Directs the defense budget and uses darkness to bait attackers into lethal counter-strikes.

Tier 1 · The Relentless Basher / Dual-Blade Bodyguard

Shimizu Ichigaku Yoshihisa 清水一学義久

Age 39 · Personal Bodyguard (Kinju) · Starts: Kira Gofukubashi

History & Role: Kira’s close personal bodyguard stationed by the kitchen and firewood/charcoal shed, who fought fiercely to the death on 12.14 and was immortalized in kōdan tradition as a fearless dual-sword (nitō-ryū) fighter. Built to hold a one-tile kitchen bridge against four attackers at once, suffering zero indoor ceiling penalty with paired blades and shoving enemies into hot braziers.

Tier 1 · The Indomitable Survivor / Loyalist

Yamayoshi Shinpachi Morizane 山吉新八盛侍

Age 30 · Seconded Uesugi Yonezawa Retainer · Starts: Kira Gofukubashi

History & Role: Yonezawa samurai seconded to young Kira Yoshichika before 1701. Fought with extraordinary courage on 12.14, suffered over a dozen sword wounds, fell unconscious in the snow, survived, and loyally accompanied the disgraced teenager into mountain exile in Shinano until 1706. Boasts the highest HP (`30`) in the game and automatically survives his first fatal Vigor wound save.

Tier 1 · The Counter-Spy / Forensic Detective

Sōda Magobei Sadatsugu 左右田孫兵衛貞次

Age 45 · Fiscal & Investigative Karō, 100 koku · Starts: Kira Gofukubashi

History & Role: Managed Kira’s strained household accounts and Uesugi subsidies, survived 12.14, compiled the official post-raid inventory and depositions for the shogunate inspectors, and voluntarily followed Yoshichika into exile. Plays the Kira campaign as a pure counter-intelligence deduction thriller: auditing Honjo purveyors, tracing leaked tea letters, and uncovering rōnin safehouses before winter.

Tier 1 · The Night-Watch Sniper & Tracker

Torii Riemon Masatsugu 鳥居利右衛門正次

Age 35 · Household Officer (Yōnin) · Starts: Kira Honjo

History & Role: Household officer who fought and died defending the rear quarters and charcoal-shed perimeter on 12.14 (Ōkuma Yaichiemon Kenbunsho). Prowls the Honjo canals after curfew tailing suspicious couriers, strings bamboo clapper tripwires across courtyards, tracks footprint trails in the snow, and fires automatic interrupt arrows at backlit silhouettes.

Tier 1 · The Tragic Young Heir (Polearm Vanguard)

Kira Yoshichika 吉良義周

Age 16 · Adopted Head of the Kira House, 4,200 koku · Starts: Kira Gofukubashi

History & Role: Biological second son of Uesugi Tsunanori, adopted into the Kira house and made head of the family at sixteen when his grandfather retired. On 12.14 the teenager personally stepped into the main hall with a naginata halberd, suffered two deep sword cuts to the face and forehead, fainted from blood loss, and was later stripped of his domain for “unseemly conduct,” dying in exile at twenty-one. Fight well enough—or save enough of your household—to alter how the shogunate judges your name.

Tier 1 · The Matriarch of Two Houses / Patroness

Lady Kira Tomiko (Bairei-in) 吉良富子（梅嶺院）

Age 57 · Wife of Kira Yoshihisa & Mother of Uesugi Tsunanori · Starts: Gofukubashi / Sakurada

History & Role: Sister of Uesugi Tsunakatsu, wife of Kira Yoshihisa, biological mother of Yonezawa lord Uesugi Tsunanori (150,000 koku), and grandmother of young Yoshichika. Brought senior councilor Kobayashi Heihachirō from Yonezawa into the Kira house, and relocated to the fortified Uesugi residence in late 1701 when Kira was forced across the river to Honjo. Commands the Uesugi security subsidy, lobbies against Chizaka/Irobe budget cuts, and controls when Kira sleeps safely at Sakurada versus returning to Honjo.

Tier 2 · Customizable Household Guard

Sudō Yoichiemon 須藤与一右衛門

Age 34 · Night-Watch & Inner Guard Leader · Full 49-Pt Attribute & 40-SP Creator

History & Build Hook: Attested Kira household inner-guard officer killed defending the rear quarters on 12.14 and inscribed on the Honjo memorial. Because almost no personal biography survives before the night of the raid, Sudō gives Kira-side players a completely open samurai captain to build from the ground up.

Tier 2 · Customizable Senior Retainer

Saitō Kunai 斎藤宮内

Age 48 · Senior Kira Counselor (Karō), 150 koku · Full 49-Pt Attribute & 40-SP Creator

History & Build Hook: Senior Kira counselor who survived the night of 12.14 without wounds and faced harsh questioning during the post-raid inquiry for failing to die beside his master. Inhabit Saitō to rewrite his fate—either building a shrewd political negotiator who prevents the raid altogether, or standing in the front hall when the shutters splinter.

Tier 2 · Customizable Perimeter Defender

Kasahara Chōtarō 笠原長太郎

Age 24 · Young Perimeter Guard · Full 49-Pt Attribute & 40-SP Creator

History & Build Hook: Young household retainer recorded among the dead in the Ōkuma Yaichiemon Kenbunsho after the desperate fighting along the perimeter barracks (nagaya). A blank-slate young defender whose attributes, martial school, and Honjo duties are entirely yours to author.

Tier 2 · Customizable Chief Lady-in-Waiting & Tea Steward

Onui of the Inner Quarters お縫（奥女中頭）

Age 28 · Senior Lady-in-Waiting (Oku-jochūgashira) at Honjo · Full 49-Pt Point-Buy

History & Build Hook: Contemporary accounts record that the women of Kira’s inner quarters (oku-jochū) were sheltered inside the mansion during the 12.14 attack while the rōnin called out that no women would be harmed. As senior lady-in-waiting and tea steward (Blue-Ink named template), Onui inspects Honjo purveyors at the service door, spots forged tea invitations before 12.14, and when the whistles blow in the dark, extinguishes the inner lamps, conceals the house seals, and guides the maids and young Yoshichika through the West Garden escape route.