Hana Matsuzaki

Hana Matsuzaki (松崎 花 Matsuzaki Hana) 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.

Story
She is the head of the family after her husband died. 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 patriarch of the Matsuzaki family.

Ryōko Matsuzaki
Ryoko is Hana's daughter whom she is very strict to and becomes a careful lovely mother, too. However, she tries to interrupt her daughter's love as she forbid her to marry Yūichirō Sawamura, in which this dispute causes Ryoko to run away from home to live with her future husband. Later on, she takes Ryoko and her grandchild into her home and she take care of them motherly.

Umi Matsuzaki
Umi is Hana's grandchild who praises her for doing housework and she recognize Umi's sorrow about loosing her father Sawamura. She is sad, when she sees Umi flies a flag Semaphore every morning.

She cares about Umi that she hires Tomoko Naraoka to help her out doing housework.

Trivia

 * Hana likes to drink while she dislikes fishes, especially sardine.
 * In the original manga her surname is Komatsuzaki (小松崎).

Etymology

 * The name Hana means "flower, blossom" (花).
 * Hana's surname Matsuzaki means "pine tree, fir tree" (松) (matsu) and "cape, peninsula" (崎) (saki/zaki).

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