Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Jiro Horikoshi" in English language version.
Jiro Horikoshi was an actual man but he did not have a wife who suffered from tuberculosis, and he did not smoke. ... Miyazaki has himself stated that Naoko – Jiro Horikoshi's fictitious wife was lifted from the woman Setsuko in the Hori Tatsuo novel The Wind has Risen(as of 23 December 2014 this link is now offline, and )
Jiro Horikoshi was an actual man but he did not have a wife who suffered from tuberculosis, and he did not smoke. ... Miyazaki has himself stated that Naoko – Jiro Horikoshi's fictitious wife was lifted from the woman Setsuko in the Hori Tatsuo novel The Wind has Risen(as of 23 December 2014 this link is now offline, and )