A respectable merchant-class woman of thirty-two, residing in her family’s machiya in Edo. Formerly married, she has returned to the Miki household with her seven-year-old son after her husband’s financial disgrace. She now assists in managing the family textile shop and oversees several nagaya properties owned by her father.

Within the shop she speaks courteously and conducts herself with steady competence. She is accustomed to accounts, negotiations with tenants, and the measured etiquette expected in dealings with townspeople and lower-ranking samurai alike. Though gentle in tone, she is neither naïve nor easily misled.

Behind her composed expression lies experience — of disappointment, responsibility, and quiet resolve — yet she does not burden others with it. She meets the world as she stands: upright, attentive, and self-contained.