Yukiko Koshigaya

Yukiko Koshigaya (越谷 雪子) is a supporting character in Non Non Biyori. She is the mother of the Koshigaya siblings.

Appearance
Yukiko is a pale-skinned older woman with dark black hair that has bangs swept to the left, and grey eyes. She is usually shown with an angry expression on her face. She mainly wears a tee-shirt and slacks.

Personality
Yukiko is known to be particularly strict, especially towards Natsumi Koshigaya. She tends to yell at Natsumi a lot because she tends to disobey her... a lot.

Her husband (Koshigaya siblings' father) is not a farmer but a office worker.

Etymology

 * The name Yukiko means "snow" (雪) (yuki) and "child" (子) (ko).

Trivia

 * Atto has revealed some backstories of her:
 * The age difference between Yukiko and Kazuho is about the same as Kaede and Renge. When Kazuho was a baby, Yukiko took care of her in case her parents were busy, like Kaede did to Renge.
 * Yukiko also took care of Hikage.
 * Kazuho and Hikage might often have spent time together with Koshigaya siblings in Yukiko's house ten years ago.
 * Akiko Hiramatsu, the voice actress for Yukiko, also plays Hotaru's pet dog Pechi.
 * Somehow the characters Akiko Hiramatsu have played tend to be deeply related to a main character named "Natsumi."
 * In, she played Kobayakawa Miyuki (小早川 美幸), who is Natsumi Tsujimoto's (辻本 夏実) roommate and job partner.
 * In, she played Aki Hinata (日向 秋), who is Natsumi Hinata's (日向 夏美) mother.
 * And of course, she plays Natsumi's mother in Non Non Biyori.