Ms. Higurashi

is the widowed mother of Kagome and Sōta Higurashi. She is a very loving and caring mother just as one would expect of a motherly figure.

Little is known about her, except that she is always supportive of Kagome. Whenever Inuyasha drops by, she would welcome him to stay and ask him to dine with the family. She is very lax about Kagome's life, and does not seem to mind at all that her daughter spends long periods of time with strangers in the distant past. How much of the situation she actually understands is debatable.

Her husband, the father of Kagome and Sōta, is never shown or seen in the series. He is only briefly mentioned in the first movie of the InuYasha series, as Mama Higurashi tries to encourage Kagome when she senses that the situation is dire on the other side of the worm hole (she revealed he died in a car accident when Kagome and Sōta were young).

She could be referred to as either 'Mrs. Higurashi', 'Ms. Higurashi', and Mama Higurashi. Her real name was never revealed in either the manga or the anime.

Mama Higurashi is very flexible with her daughter's situation: this includes her constant journeys throughout the feudal era, her relationship with the hanyō named Inuyasha (who supposedly has a rough nature), her fights against deadly demons and her quest to recover the Shikon Jewel.

Relationships
Much is not known about them, but they were married after he proposed to her at the Goshinboku sacred tree. Together they had two children, Kagome and Sōta. They had obviously been very happy and in love before Mr. Higurashi passed away.
 * Mr. Higurashi

She and Kagome were rather close to one another and she always seemed to know when something was wrong with her. She was also often seen or talked about doing many things to make her daughter's life just a little bit easier. In the end she let her daughter marry Inuyasha in the Feudal era so that she could be happy.
 * Kagome

Sōta

Sōta and Mama do not spend as much time as Kagome and Mama do, but it appears like Sōta could be described as a "mama's boy", when Mama lightly teases him for wetting the bed at 3rd grade. They appear to have a basic mother and son relationship and love each other very much. She and Inuyasha seem to get along very well even though during their first meeting she felt the need to play with his ears (much like Kagome the first time she saw him). She often treats him as if he were her own son, welcoming him for meals when Inuyasha comes to fetch Kagome, and providing her daughter with a plethora of medicine from the modern era to help treat his wounds. But being no fool, she always ensures that Inuyasha keeps his dog ears covered in the modern age to help him keep him from blowing his secret of being a half-demon to modern humans. She seems to sense that he's been long without a mother and cares deeply for him as her daughter's love.
 * Inuyasha

She and Grandpa have a very good relationship; although he is her late husband's father, she treats him as if he was her own father.
 * Grandpa Higurashi

Trivia

 * She bears resemble to Mrs. Tendo from Ranma 1/2

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