[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 [ja] when she was nine years old.
[9][10] Nohara satisfied the criteria for the rank of women's shogi professional 2-kyū in July 2020 when she defeated Io Murota to advance to the quarterfinals of the 28th Kurashiki Tōka tournament [ja].
[11] She informed the Japan Shogi Association of her desire to turn professional, and the JSA announced on August 14, 2020, that it had accepted her application and would award her professional status as of September 1, 2020.
[4] Nohara stated that when she first started studying under Suzuki as an elementary school student she actually preferred the Bishop Exchange Fourth File Rook strategy but found that she just could not beat any opponents who were using the Kamaitachi opening; therefore, she began to study the strategy under Suzuki himself.
[4] She stated that one of the things that appealed to her about the strategy was that she could look at a random Kamaitachi position and immediately tell it was almost certainly from one of Suzuki's games in contrast to traditional shogi opening strategies which are more commonly used.