 She learned how to play shogi from her older brother when she was a second-grade elementary school student.She started playing shogi at a local shogi club in Sendai and continued to improve saying she "enjoyed playing against older people because her age didn't matter" and that it was "fun trying to figure out how each game would develop".She first thought about actually trying to become a women's professional shogi player after meeting shogi professional Akira Shima and women's shogi professional Kanna Suzuki at an shogi event for local children as part of the JSA's efforts to help those in Tōhoku region recover from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.