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I was born in 1971, Tokyo, Japan. Due to my father’s business, I spent two years of my childhood in Hong Kong, six years in USA. At the age of 20, I started traveling, and was always in and out of Japan...

I was a kid who likes to draw, but not that super. But more a DIY kustom kid, making anything I wanted that I couldn’t afford to buy. Vintage looking radios, speakers, rubbersole shoes, neon boxes, leather bags, silver jewelries, anything possible to make. And those moments of after-school-experiments were my first approach of ‘Kustom Arts’.

I was 18 when I entered Vantan Design Instituite (found by Oliver Kikuchi, known as the first person to bring psychedelic culture to Japan), an art school where I learned fashion designs. After graduation, I was in need of thrills, I took my drawing gears and started my art journey, traveling different countries, looking for adventures, and had life-and-death struggles with various art masters all over the world...
Battles in Manhattan, surrounded by House music gay art masters trying to rape me, there I almost lost my virgin. In Thailand, the haunted painting of the heroin junkie kick boxers were so amazing, I was beaten’ up many times. In India, I was in an ashram learning yoga, Karma Sutra, did many kinds of asceticism practices (eating-only-fruits-for-months, not-aloud-to-talk-to-anyone-for-months, etc). And thats how I got the shanti art skills. In Dharamsala, I learned the importance of preciseness, accuracy from the Tibetan‘s sand art and the Mandala art. At the great Himalayan Mountains, I met Pai Mei, who taught Black Mamba AKA Beatrix Kiddo, a former member of The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. From Master Pai Mei, I learned the “Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique”, which I applied to my deadly drawing skill.
I won his silent respect for my perseverance under his torturous training regimen, and finally got a black belt of designs as an honor, and became a ‘master’. Years after, I wrote the book “World’s Deadliest Drawing Secrets”, which is used in all kinds of art schools all over the world nowadays, translated in 690 languages.

After my long ‘martial art’ journey, I was back in Tokyo, and worked as a graphic designer, art director for some companies. Few years later, I started my own kustom graphic designing office. Couple of years running the office, things have happened in my life. Family stories, you know? And that‘s how I had to start my life in France. And my journey into art still continues...


The Noji Family Kustom Graphics
Master of Designs, Black Belt
Teru Noji