Hana Matsuzaki

Hana Matsuzaki is the grandmother of Umi Matsuzaki, Sora Matsuzaki and Riku Matsuzaki in Studio Ghibli's movie From Up on Poppy Hill. She is motherly and kind, but she is also very strict. Her strict upbringing influence Ryōko Matsuzaki (Hana's daughter) and Umi Matsuzaki (Hana's grandchild). She lives with her family in her home. She is the head of the family after her husband died.[1] So she responsible for financial management. So she rent rooms of her house and she hires Tomoko Shiraki to disburden Umi doing housework. She get also the highest respect in family. Everybody waiting for her coming to the table, before they start to have breakfast. Tomoko always greeting and bid farewell to her. It is an act of respect that mark her as a matriarch of the Matsuzaki family.