Mifuyu Okkotsu

This middle-aged woman wears her long black hair parted evenly up front, the rest bundled into a bun behind her head.

Her wedding portrait shows her in full Shinto bridal attire, a shiromuku paired with a tsunokakushi, while at Yuta Okkotsu's funeral she appeared in an all-black kimono. Day to day she leans toward a dark kimono fastened with a lighter Nagoya obi.

When her husband vanished in 2070, Mifuyu braced to be cast out by the Okkotsu family, yet the in-laws she feared, Maki Zenin and Yuta Okkotsu, instead treated her with warmth and care. The relationship stayed good, but their habit of spoiling the grandchildren worried her about the kids' futures, so she leaned strict to counterbalance them, only to find over time that she had come across as cold and remote.

That apparent chill shows when she took a ring her father-in-law had left to her daughter and handed it to her son instead, brushing aside both children's protests; she flatly told Yuka she had no right to keep it and dismissed Tsurugi's refusal as beside the point.

For all her severity, Mifuyu loves her children fiercely. After scolding Yuka and Tsurugi for their recklessness and ordering them to reflect, she recognized everything they had done and told them that bringing them into the world was the proudest moment of her life, asking only that they spare her such fear again.

At some stage Mifuyu wed Iori Okkotsu, and in 2069 the couple had their son, Tsurugi; the following March 18 she delivered their daughter, Yuka.

After her father-in-law died in 2080, a Gojo Clan ruling led her to take back the ring he had given Yuka and pass it to Tsurugi over his objections.

Later she rebuked her children for their reckless choices: Yuka for concealing an illness and taking on a fight with Dabura Karaba, and Tsurugi for going by himself to Tokyo to face Marulu Val Vol Yelvori. Having dressed them down, she told them how proud their birth had made her, assuring them that their grandparents, and surely their father too, shared the feeling.