Career
She joined Country Musume in 1999 along with Rinne Toda and Azusa Kobayashi. On July 16, 1999, Yanagihara was killed in a car accident one week before the group"s first release, Futari no Hokkaidou on July 23, 1999. She is the only Hello! Project member past or present to die.
~) Dramas 1998-1904-06 – Taiyō Musume to Umi (太陽娘と海, Sun Daughter and the Sea) 1998-1907-09 – Kaze no Musumetachi (風の娘たち, Daughters of Wind) 1998-1910-11 – Wine Musume Koi Monogatari (ワイン娘恋物語, Wine Daughter Love Story).