Mitsuba Higashikata

Mitsuba Higashikata (東方 密葉) is a minor character featured in JoJolion. She is the wife of Jobin Higashikata and the mother of Tsurugi Higashikata.

Appearance
Mitsuba is a woman of average to slim build. She has short, medium-colored hair with sideswept bangs curled upward. Her outfit consists of a shirt with two cutouts on her upper chest and a checkered skirt. She also wears a pair of heels.

In her later appearance, her bangs are no longer curled upward and her hair is longer on the sides, now covering her ears to hide her skin hardening to stone. She wears a short sleeve top with knots on the shoulders, wristbands, a long skirt, and a pair of high heels. Her shirt is adorned with a downward arrow symbol, whereas her wristbands have symbols with arrows pointing both upward and downward.

Personality
Mitsuba is a vain woman, caring a lot about her appearance and wanting to look perfect.

History
Having married Jobin, she appears to be part of the family. She was present during the family photo and was introduced by Norisuke Higashikata IV. She is usually seen carrying around her child, Tsurugi.

Shortly after a fire has ravaged the Higashikata family's orchard, Mitsuba arrives at the nearby university hospital to see her doctor about a problem she has had with her hearing that morning. Although the doctor claims she is perfectly healthy, Mitsuba says she can no longer hear out of her right ear. The doctor examines her, and finds that the part of her skull around her ear has turned to stone, and tells her she is perfectly fine. Mitsuba does not believe him, as she fell ill that morning and lost consciousness, but when she awoke she felt as if her right ear had turned to stone. She then explains how the doctor has helped her in the past, lifting her sagging breasts, but afterwards her teeth felt as if they were stone and she couldn't keep herself from drooling, forcing her to cover her mouth and not talk to others. And then when she had her teeth treated by the doctor, the issue with her ear began days later. The doctor assures her she is fine, but when she says she knows her son will say something when he sees her ear is now stone, the doctor makes a call, and offers one more treatment, for the price of 200 million yen. Later, while Yasuho Hirose is waiting in the hospital herself, she sees Mitsuba being taken to another room in a wheelchair, and that her ankles have apparently crumbled away, leaving only stony bones connecting her feet to the rest of her legs.