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Ink-credible journey: Teen tattoo artist defies Japanese conventions to make mark in world of skin art
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Noko Nishigaki made global headlines for practising as a tattoo artist at age nine.
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SINGAPORE –It is day one at Culture Cartel, Asia’s largest street culture festival, at *Scape Singapore in December, and 105 tattoo artists are hard at work.
From Korean tattoo influencer Zihee’s intricate rainbow-hued designs to Singapore’s Frankie Sexton’s bold anime-inspired etchings, they have come from near and far to create artworks on one of nature’s sexiest canvases – the skin.
