Real name: 中西美乃生 / Nakanishi Minobu

Effective period / Period of releases: 1975 - 2016

Stage name: 森田童子 (Morita Dōji).
Japanese female singer-songwriter. Born January 15, 1952 in Tokyo, died April 24, 2018. Released six albums, one live album and four singles between 1975 and 1983, when she retired. Since then one newly recorded track has appeared on a compilation, but she never returned to live performance.
Her real name is 中西美乃生 (Minobu Nakanishi). Her uncle is a lyricist なかにし礼 (Rei Nakanishi).

Her father 中西正一 / Shoichi Nakanishi was a pilot of the zero fighter plane during World War II. He was a survivor of the special attack corps, so he lived a rough life after the war. And he went bankrupt in a number of companies he founded with a large debt from his younger brother Rei Nakanishi, but he continued to play hard.
Around that time, Shoichi Nakanishi's family who Shoichi Nakanishi, his wife, eldest daughter, second daughter Minobu Nakanishi (AKA Douji Morita), eldest son are began living at Rei Nakanishi's home.
the second daughter Minobu Nakanishi (Douji Morita) dropped out of high school when her friend was caught in a campus dispute at the age of 17 in Japanese riot era 1970.
She lived with Rei Nakanishi at his Tokyo Nakano house for four years from the age of 15 to 19.

Rei Nakanishi remarried 石田ゆり / Yuri Ishida in 1971.
Yuri Ishida is いしだあゆみ / Ayumi Ishida's younger sister. In other words, Ayumi Ishida's brother-in-law becomes Rei Nakanishi.
So, for a year from 1971 to 1972, Minobu Nakanishi (Douji Morita) lived with Yuri Ishida.
Rei Nakanishi had a debt of 600 million yen due to the failure of Shoichi Nakanishi's golf course development, and Rei Nakanishi's company also went bankrupt.
Rei Nakanishi took this opportunity to insulate from his brother's family and kick them out.
And because Douji Morita's family got in the way of his newly-married life, Rei Nakanishi is exciled his old brother Shoichi Nakanishi and his family.
Douji Morita was fond of Rei Nakanishi, but living at her home in Rei Nakanishi was very hard for her.

Rei Nakanishi and his old brother Shoichi Nakanishi (Douji Morita's father) scouted a country girl named 堀川麗子 / Reiko Horikawa, who was the number one young hostess in Ginza, who came to Tokyo from Kyoto. This country girl is later 風吹ジュン / Jun Fubuki.

They made Ado Promotion, a talent office established for Jun Fubuki,
They had Shoichi Nakanishi's friend and illustrator 前田亜土 / Ado Maeda (Real name 前田正春 / Masaharu Maeda, later husband of Doji Morita) become president.

The talent Jun Fubuki, who belongs to their office, was dissatisfied with the low salary.
Rei Nakanishi, Shoichi Nakanishi, and Ado Maeda filed an abduction and confinement case on September 12, 1974 when Jun Fubuki attempted to move to another office.
They used Mafia to confine Jun Fubuki and force her to give up on the office transfer. (In a subsequent trial, Jun Fubuki's transfer to the office was approved, but at that time, Jun Fubuki's past career misrepresentation was revealed, so her image was downgraded.)

Minobu Nakanishi (Doji Morita) started singing songs around the age of 20, and made her debut at the age of 22 in 1975, the year after the kidnapping of Jun Fubuki.
There are a lot of troubles in her background and she wanted to hide her relationship with the famous Rei Nakanishi and make her debut.
"It comes from 笛吹き童子/ Fuefuki Doji," Doji Morita said of the stage name.
"Fuefuki Doji" is the main character of a fictional hero radio program that appeared in 1467.
At that time, Ado Maeda was in charge of the manager of Doji Morita.

She retired to marry her father's friend and her manager, 前田亜土 (Ado Maeda).
Morita Doji's husband, Ado Maeda, died on October 31, 2010.
Minobu Maeda, also known as Doji Morita, died lonely on June 12, 2018.
She had been suffering from depression for eight years after Ado Maeda died.
She is believed to have died of heart failure a week before her body was discovered.