Tetsuya Noguchi (野口哲哉, Noguchi Tetsuya, born 1980 in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese artist known for his images of samurai in modern everyday or comical situations.
[1] Noguchi was born in 1980 in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.
[2] Since his youth, Noguchi has been inspired by science fiction, samurai films, history, and plastic models, and he uses these as influences in his paintings and sculptures.
[4] He was first inspired by a photo of a samurai taken around the end of the Tokugawa period, as well as by the works of Kobori Tomoto.
[3][5] Noguchi's work has been described as "archival, historical and yet happily contemporarily comical",[1] and having "technique...so exquisite that it elevates the work entirely out of the realm of parody".