1st Morning Musume & Heike Michiyo Protegee Audition

Heike Michiyo & Morning Musume Imouto-bun Audition (平家みちよ&モーニング娘。妹分オーディション; Heike Michiyo & Morning Musume Sister Audition), was an audition for a new member to join Hello! Project. Application details was included with Heike Michiyo's fifth single, with a deadline set for February 1999. Second interviews were held in late March to early April. 3,264 girls sent in their application, and 157 girls passed the first round.
The audition process was aired on "Idol wo Sagase!". 
On May 18, 1999 it was revealed on "Idol wo Sagase!" that Rumiko Chigi had passed the audition. She was given the stage name Miyoshi Chinatsu shortly after she won.
== Audition Details ==
*Application Requirements:
*#Female, 15 to 18 years old
*#Must send in a recording of Heike Michiyo's Anata no Yume ni Naritai and Morning Musume's Memory Seishun no Hikari on cassette tape, writing name and age on the cassette label (without the cassette case).
*#Must send in two photos (full length and close up).
*#Must write a self-introduction book with name, date of birth, age, size (height, bust, waist, hip), work history, education (school name, grade), and a self PR (maximum 200 characters).
*#Enclose an A-4 size statonary sheet with phone number and stamps, and select the district to participate in the second interviews (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo or Fukuoka).
*#Those who pass will be contacted about second interview at end of March.
*Application Deadline:February 1999
*Total Applicants: 3,264
*Broadcast:
**Idol wo Sagase!
==At Home Interviews==
In episodes #13 to #17 on "Idol wo Sagase", a small segment was aired with one of the girls who had sent in an application. She answers questions, show her room, dance and sing the chorus of a song.
*Episode #13
**Asami Yuko (浅美優子), 17, sings Hamasaki Ayumi's "Depend on You"
*Episode #14
**TBA
*Episode #15
**TBA
*Episode #16
**Arai Miki (新井美喜), 15, sings Amuro Namie's "BODY FEELS EXIT"
*Episode #17
**Ikehata Chisue (池端千季), 18, sings PUFFY's "Ai no Shirushi"
==Trivia==
*One of the songs Chinatsu sang (if she sang more than one) at the audition was Aikawa Nanase's "Yumemiru Shoujo ja Irarenai". 
==References==
Category:1999 Auditions
Category:Hello! Project Auditions