Tetsuko Sanada

Sanada Tetsuko
Name
Japanese	真田哲子
Rōmaji	Tetsuko Sanada
Personal Information
Gender	Female
Family	Genji Sanada (Husband) Toru Sanada (Son) Ryu Sanada (Son) Haruka Katayama (Daughter-in-law) Ayu (Granddaughter)
Professional Status
Occupation	Ramen shop
Affiliation	Sanada Family
First Appearance
Manga	Volume 15 Chapter 62
Actor

Tetsuko Sanada (真田 哲子, Sanada Tetsuko) is the late mother of Ryu Sanada and Toru Sanada. She died while she went to pick up her younger son at school, in a car crash caused by the ground frozen by the snow.

Appearance

Mrs. Sanada looks remarkably similar in appearance to her son, Toru, but with more feminine features. She had a slender and good-looking figure with short light colored hair.

Personality

Not much is known about her, but it looks like she was a very kind and caring woman. We can assume that she loved her children and Chizuru.

Relationships

Genji Sanada

Genji is Tetsuko's husband and the father of their children. It seems they were deeply in love with each other, since her husband was seen to cry and despair after her death.

Chiaki Yoshida

Sanada family's neighbor, with whom she appears to have been close friends. In flashbacks, they often appear together discussing or watching their similar-aged children (Chizuru and Ryu, as well as Toru and Chizuru's unnamed older brother). Chiaki appeared distraught at Tetsuko's death, and helped look after and cook meals for her sons after the accident.

Chizuru Yoshida

Chiaki's daughter. Tetsuko often made onigiri for her and Ryu to eat, and deeply cared for her. She appreciated Chizuru's close friendship with her son Ryu, especially as he was often misunderstood by other children, and joked about how the pair might get married one day. After her death, Chizuru was seen grieving, after realizing that she will never be able to see her again.

Etymology

• The name Tetsuko means "philosophy" (哲) (tetsu) and "child" (子) (ko).
• Tetsuko's surname Sanada means "braid, plait" (真田).