Futaba Miyamizu

Futaba Miyamizu (宮水 二葉) is the late wife of Toshiki and the mother of Mitsuha and Yotsuha. 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 of average build with fair skin. 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 cheerful and energetic woman who always made the best of situations. As a devote Miyamizu priestess, she was very knowledgable and passionate about her family's history, and gleefully shared everything she knew with the future husband Toshiki, to which she was noted to be open and social. Exactly because of her status as a preistess of the Miyamizu family, Futaba was well-looked up to by people around her. She was also a very determined person, as she stubbornly refused to back down when her mother opposed to her marriage with Toshiki, insisting that she was absolutely getting married no matter what. According to Toshiki, she was fearless, as she had described childbirth as an experience that only "startled her". After becoming a wife and mother, it was demonstrated that Futaba was a kind, caring, and selfless woman. Before she 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. Twenty years prior to the story, Futaba met Toshiki Mizoguchi after he came to Itomori for research. During their interviews and exchange about their knowledge, they bonded and a mutual attraction formed. When Toshiki fell in love with her, he confessed to which Futaba hugged and kissed him in response. Although their marriage was strongly opposed by Hitoha, she accepted it when Toshiki was adopted into the family and began working full-time in the shrine. Soon after, their daughters, Mitsuha and Yotsuha, were born.

However, two years after Yotsuha's birth, Futaba was diagnosed with an unnamed illness which caused her immune cells to go out of control. Futaba, however, refused to let herself be hospitalized and tested. Even after being forced to be hospitalized, Futaba refused to be transferred to a specialized hospital in the big city. After a fight with her illness, Futaba passed away.

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".
 * When she was alive, Futaba was greatly admired by people around her, being described as a "goddess", or a "ray of light".
 * The citizens of Itomori note that Futaba's daughters inherited her beauty and almost looks identical to her.