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A nun at Shiranui, whom Orito developes a friendship with, and is the only thing that makes her life bearable at the monastary. She has fox-like pointed ears, similar to a {{kitsune}}.

%%* BadassGrandpa

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* TheHero: Arguably, of his own arc.

* [[spoiler: RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Implied to have been killed off by Enomoto after the death of Ogawa. The report Jacob receives states that 11 bandits (fitting with Shuzai and his ten men) had been tortured to death as penalty for Ogawa's death by Enomoto, and he is never seen again after that.]]

* DidNotGetTheGirl
* TheHero
* NaiveNewcomer

* UnluckyEverydude

* CoolOldGuy

* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Jacob.

* TheSmartGuy

* DaChief

* PointyHairedBoss
* VillainWithGoodPublicity

* DaChief: Come his promotion.

* {{Slimeball}}
* SmugSnake

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Yayoi.

* BigBad
* TheChessmaster

* VillainWithGoodPublicity

* NiceGuy
* OutGambitted: By Enomoto
* SacrificialLion

* DaChief

* HeroicSacrifice

* BadassGrandpa
* CoolOldGuy

* OldMaster

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: His implied fate.

* TheIngenue
* NaiveEverygirl
* NiceGirl

* TheCaptain

* {{Slimeball}}
* SmugSnake

* [[spoiler: DidNotGetTheGirl]]

* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini: He never appears again after leaving Dejima at the end of the first arc.]]

* [[spoiler: VillainWithGoodPublicity]]
* [[spoiler: WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Disappears after leaving Dejima at the end of the first arc.]]

* [[spoiler: WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He never appears again after the ''Phoebus'' leaves Dejima. Given hsi refusal to cooperate with thim, it is likely prison awaited him on arrival in England.]]

* [[spoiler: EatsBabies: He is just that evil.]]

* [[spoiler: PeopleFarms: The truth about Shiranui.]]

* [[spoiler: VillainousBreakdown: After realizing he has been poisoned, he, with increasing despair and fear of death, babbles on about how what he is doing is right, nobody understands him, that he will live forever, and Ogawa and Shiroyama are worthless people. Then, he tries to draw his ceremonial dagger to attack Shiroyama before the poison takes effect.]]

* [[spoiler: OutGambitted: By Enomoto]]
* [[spoiler: SacrificialLion]]

* [[spoiler: DyingMomentOfAwesome: Sacrifices himself to kill Enomoto. When he is certain that he had been poisoned, he calmly explained to him why he was getting killed.]]

* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]

* [[spoiler: FalseFriend: Betrays Ogawa to Enomoto.]]

* [[spoiler: YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: His implied fate.]]

* [[spoiler: WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After failing to give the order that would kill Jacob, he leaves Nagasaki, and his fate is not revealed. During the epilogue, Jacob himself wonders what has happened and wishes he could have met him, but concludes that he probably died long ago.]]

* TheObiWan: To Ogawa.

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The main character of the novel. A young clerk who is working off five years in the Dutch East India Company to save money to marry his fiance, but whose life complicates with the encounter of Aibagawa Orito.

* [[spoiler: WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He never appears again after the ''Phoebus'' leaves Dejima. Given hsi refusel to cooperate with thim, it is likely prison awaited him on arrival in England.]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He is introduced earlier, but the hint fo hsi role later in the novel is given when he brutally beats van Cleefs slave for an undisclosed reason.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: As soon as things doesn't go as he expects, this is his reaction.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Granted, all the europeans, including Jacob, keeps slaves and are racist, but Fischer is the only to directly mistreat his, and his racism is definetely worse.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: When he realizes that neither the other Dutchmen ore the Japanese are willing to comply with his demands during the ''Phoebus'' incident, he suffers from this. Penhaligon notices it, and realizes just how pathetic Fischer really is.]]

A midwife, and a rangaku (Dutch Studies) student at Dejima. IN the first scene of the novel, she saves the child of bugyo Shiroyama, and he rewards her by allowing her to study under Marinus at Dejima. Jacob falls in love with her, but before he can act, she is spirited away to the mountain cult of Abbed Enomoto, to be used as a midwife by him.

The abbed of Shiraniu monastary, and the priamry antagonist of the novel. [[spoiler. He is respnsible for kidnapping Orito, and as it turns out, he is breeding babies in a cult only to murder them and turn them into a tonic he believes will keep him young.]]

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It is never stated outright if his magic tonics actually works.

* [[spoiler: VillainousBreakdown: After realizing he has been poisoned, he, with increasing despair and fear of death, babbles on about how what he is doing is right, nobody understands him, that he will live forever, and Ogawa and Shiroyama are worthless people. Then, he tries to draw hsi ceremonial dagger to attack Shiroyama before the poison takes effect.]]

One of the best interpreters at Dejima from a samurai family, who had previously been in love with Orito, but prevented form marrying her. [[spoiler: He takes a major role in the seconf arc of the book, trying to reascue Orito from Shiranui.]]

* [[spoiler: DyingMomentOfAwesome: Sacrifices himself to kill Enomoto. When he is certain that he ahd been poisoned, he calmly explained to him why he was getting killed.]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He is based on the magistrate of Nagasaki during the ''Phaeton'' Incident of 1808, Matsudaira Yasuhide, seeing as the ''Phoebus'' arc takes a lot of inspiration from this incident, including the understaffing of samurai ready to defend Nagasaki, and [[spoiler: Matsudairas suicide after the incident, the difference being that the historical Matsudaira committed suicide to repent for not having the sufficient defences ready at Nagasaki, while Shiroyama in the book does it to take down Enomoto without tainting his familys name, and thereby reuining the life of his young son.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: For most of the novel , he is merely a background character. [[spoiler: Not so much when Jacob reveals to him what Enomoto was doing. Rather than being on Enomotos payroll like Shuzai was, and murdering Jacob, he sacrifices his life to kill Enomoto and free the captives at Shiranui.]]

!!Shuzai.

* [[spoiler: RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Implied to have been killed off by Enomoto after the death of Ogawa. The report Jacob receives states that 11 bandits (fitting with Shuzai and his ten men) had been tortured to death as penalty ofr Ogawas death by Enomoto, and he is never seen again after that.]]

A nun at Shiranui, whom Orito developes a friendship with, and is the only thing that makes her life bearable at the monastary.

The captain of the ''Phoebus'', and the leader of the ships attempt to open relations with Japan.

* AntiVillain: While he is an antagonist to Jacob, his backstory is kind fo sympathetic. His wife and only son are dead, and his career is waining, the reason while he is desperately trying to revive it with the Japanese mission.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Similar to Jacob being inspired by Hendrik Doeff and SHiroyama by Matsudaira Yasuhide, Penhaligon is this to FLeetwood Pellew, the captain of the ''Phaeton'' during the incident in 1808 which served as an inspiration for the events of the third arc, although his resemblence to Pellew is somewhat less abvious than the other two, as Pellew was only 19 at the time of the incident, while Penhaligon is closing in on retirement.
* OnelastJob: His Nagasaki mission is meant to be this before his retirement.
* RedRightHand: His podagra in the left foot, with makes him more and mroe crippled as the novel progresses.

* [[spoiler: WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After failing to give th order that would kill Jacob, he leaves Nagasaki, and his fate is not revealed. During the epilogue, Jacob himself wonders what has happened and wishes he could ahve met him, but concludes that he probably died long ago.]]

The former commander of Dejima, whom is relieved of his command at the start of the novel by Vorstenbosch due to corruption, but returns as the instigator of the ''Phoebus'' incident later on, as part of Penhaligons crew.