Futaba Miyamizu

Futaba Miyamizu (宮水 二葉) is the late wife of Toshiki Miyamizu and the mother of Mitsuha Miyamizu and Yotsuha Miyamizu. Futaba was a devote member of the Miyamizu family, where she participated in various rituals for her family's shrine until her death in 2007.

Appearance
Futaba was a very beautiful woman. Her daughters inherited her beauty and almost look identical to her. She had shoulder-length straight black hair, which she left loose (but sometimes had it tied into a low ponytail when performing Miyamizu traditions) and brown eyes.

Personality
Futaba was a very kind and caring woman, who was also a very loving mother and wife towards Mitsuha Miyamizu and Yotsuha Miyamizu. Before Futaba died, she was extremely sad to leave her family behind and apologized to them.

Background
Futaba was the only child to Hitoha Miyamizu. As a Miyamizu, Futaba was trained to become a shrine maiden. She also had dreams when she was a young girl ― dreams about someone else's life ― like her mother and eldest daughter. At an unknown point in her life, Toshiki Miyamizu came to Itomori for research and met Futaba. They eventually married and had two daughters, Mitsuha Miyamizu and Yotsuha Miyamizu. Since Toshiki was married into the family, both he and Futaba were active in the Miyamizu traditions. However, after Futaba died of sickness, her husband was grief-stricken and left the family's shrine, because he said he only loved Futaba and not the Miyamizu shrine. He left then to pursue politics and since then, Mitsuha and Yotsuha have lived with their grandmother.

Trivia

 * Her name, Futaba (二葉) means "two leaves". Her name is connected to her mother's, with her name meaning "one leaf", her eldest daughter's, which means "three leaves," and her younger daughter's meaning "four leaves".