Hinako Ogawa (小川 比奈子, Ogawa Hinako) is a minor character in The Garden of Words novel.
Background[]
A literature teacher at Yukari Yukino's junior high school in Imabari, Ogawa supervised the Art club that Yukino attended. Two years after Yukari's graduation, she was pregnant and quit her job, but not before having a farewell party with her former students.
During her years of teaching, she treated Yukari with love and kindness, which ultimately inspired her to become a teacher herself.
Etymology[]
- The name Hinako means "ratio, proportion" (比) (hi), "apple tree" (奈) (na) and "child" (子) (ko).
- Hinako's surname Ogawa means "stream, brook, bourn/bourne" (小川).