: Throughout her career, she also performed under names such as Miho Ashina and Shihori Inamori .
Minefuji’s most ambitious, and perhaps cursed, work was Tsumi no Shikake , published in the short-lived Shogi Geijutsu (Shogi Art) magazine from 1959 to 1961. The plot follows a former kamikaze pilot who becomes a wandering shogi master, betting his life on muzukashii tsumi shogi (difficult checkmate puzzles). Each chapter ended with a real, solvable puzzle. Readers who failed to solve it would find the next issue’s protagonist one step closer to death. minefuji kou
: Under this alias, she was particularly well-known for her work with the Tokyo-Hot studio , specifically appearing in the Encore series. : Throughout her career, she also performed under
Minefuji Kou