Silence

Silence Character List

Sebastion Rodrigues

The main character of the novel. A young Portuguese Jesuit missionary sent to Japan.

Francisco Garrpe

Rodrigues's missionary companion.

Christovao Ferreira

A revered Portuguese priest who vanished in Japan after more than 30 years as a missionary. Rumored to have apostatized. His new Japanese name is Sawano Chuan.

Kichijiro

A Japanese interpreter for the Portuguese, a secret Catholic, and a cowardly man.

Ichizo

A man of 50 years old, a Christian, who visits Rodrigues and Garrpe's hilly hideaway in Tomogi.

Omatsu

Ichizo's older sister.

Monica

A captive Japanese Christian that Rodrigues meets when he is captured.

Juan

A Japanese Christian who Rodrigues meets when they are both captured.

Inoue

The magistrate/governor of Chikugo, an old samurai with a terrible reputation for torturing Christians to force them to apostatize.

Jonassen

A Dutch clerk in Nagasaki in 1644.

The interpreter

A Japanese man who translates for Rodrigues. He went to seminary but is not a Christian.

Valignano

A Jesuit Superior who founded a college in Macao for missionaries going to China and Japan.

Mokichi

A young villager in Tomogi.

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