Miran Nohara
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| Miran Nohara | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 野原未蘭 |
| Born | August 4, 2003 |
| Hometown | Toyama, Japan |
| Career | |
| Achieved professional status | September 1, 2020 (aged 17) |
| Badge Number | W-70 |
| Rank | Women's 2-dan |
| Teacher | Toshiyuki Moriuchi (9-dan) |
| Websites | |
| JSA profile page | |
Miran Nohara (野原 未蘭, Nohara Miran; born August 4, 2003) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 2-dan.
Nohara was born on August 4, 2003, in Toyama, Toyama.[1] She learned how to play shogi from her father when she was five years old, and then started attending a shogi school in Kanazawa and receiving instruction from a former appentice professional 3-dan named Eishun Suzuki when she was nine years old.[2][3][4]
As an elementary school fifth-grade student, Nohara won the 7th Elementary School Student Koma Hime Meijin Tournament in 2014, and then won the same tournament again as a sixth-grade student in 2015.[5] After entering junior high school, Nohara won the 8th Girl's Junior High School Student Meijin Tournament in 2016 as a junior high school first year student,[6] and then the 43rd Junior High School Student Meijin Tournament as a junior high school third-year student in 2018. Her victory in 2018 was the first time the tournament had been won by a female.[4][7][8]
Nohara is the first to win the Women's Amateur Meijin tournament three years in a row; she won the 49th Amateur Women's Meijin Tournament in 2017, the 50th Amateur Women's Meijin Tournament in 2018 and the 51st Amateur Women's Meijin Tournament in 2019.[9][10]