Takagi Naoko : the 150cm life author

The reason why I decided to write about her is because I am sure that there are many people who are also her fans and do not know some of her details in real life

Takagi Naoko said she is born 1974 in Japan Kansai province Mie city.

Mie is very close to Kyoto and there are Japanese temple and shrines in Mie in west Japan side.

and do you really know when is her birthday if only with such limited details she wrote on author section in her books ?

in many pages and details online and Wikipedia , Takagi Naoko in Japan in 150cm life book author list is typed as March twenty sixth

26th March 1974 is Takagi Naoko birthday

but if you search or surf online there is no details that March 26 is her birthday and there is not enough details on her birthday.

then, her birth place in 1974.

"Mie", itse shrine in Mie which is west Japan (kansai) side and near Kyoto and Tokyo is another side from Kyoto if you do not really know the difference

Takagi Naoko has an older sister who born 1973.

Takagi Naoko has a younger brother who born 1979 and has married and have at least two kids himself

In 1984 to 2000 December 23rd, Takagi Naoko had adopted a female dog name muku (bubble) who is a stray dog and got bullied outside before Takagi family adopt muku and in December 23rd 2000 muku died then the two left dogs also died then the Takagi family do not feed animals anymore.

in 1998, Takagi Naoko decided to migrate to Tokyo to continue her comic career or comic job or comic drawing but she does not always have business and does not always have job and she needs five to nine years to get better but still not rich enough

in 2015 Takagi Naoko married her husband and in 2017 Feb 20 Takagi Naoko born a daughter then Takagi Naoko had no time to online often.

her daughter loves Anpanman cartoon.

Takagi Naoko sometimes play or run on marathon races and sometimes she had even go to Paris and other countries for marathon

takagi naoko sometimes do exercises to keep fit and sometimes she win by complete the entire race but she did not even have a great chance to run to number one or rank one herself, but her friend yoko did win in Guam marathon and rank one in the girls group

in 2012 Bordeaux marathon, Takagi Naoko quit after running 29 km or 30 km, when yoko completes the Bordeaux marathon and yoko takes photo that she wears the medal herself

then Takagi Naoko and Yoko run together in marathons but Yoko is just really very outstanding because she always run long distance and increase her training speed and power and increase her training time to longer time and keeps training so Yoko runs better than Takagi naoko

since Takagi Naoko gets more older in age and gets lazier from her comic job and her lazy life by sleeping long time, she runs less and that is why she does not train much nor even run much in marathons because of lazy life.

In her first year of junior high school, she was moved by the paintings of Ben Shane in her art textbook and aspired to become a painter.

She joined the tennis club in junior high school, but preferred drawing.

She and her classmates drew illustrations in their exchange diaries and submitted them to competitions, which planted the seed of her idea to become a cartoonist.

After graduating from art and design school, she went to work for a design company in Nagoya, but resigned because she was not used to the client's requirements.

She worked for a moving company for a time.

In 1998, at the age of 24, she went to Tokyo alone with her dream of becoming an illustrator.

When she first arrived in Tokyo, her submissions were repeatedly rejected. To make a living, she did various odd jobs and taught herself HTML to create a personal website to publish her life comics.

In February 2003, her picture book "150cm Life", which records her personal life, was published and became an instant hit.

Since then, she has created a series of picture books with the theme of "alone". Her works have been introduced to China since 2005.

She has long resided in Tokyo, and her interests include collecting Tom and Jerry related products, woodworking, pottery, and growing green perilla.

In July 2024, she published the book "A Solo Gourmet Journey 2".

Chinese Name: Naoko Takagi

Foreign Name: Naoko Takagi

Alias: Rice Cake

Nationality: Japan

Ethnicity: Yamato

Birthplace: Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture

Birthdate: March 26, 1974

Occupation: Illustrator, Picture Book Author

Major Achievements:

Known as the Queen of Japanese Picture Books

Representative Works:

"150cm Life",

"A Solo Trip to Tokyo",

"A Solo First Time"

"A Solo Gourmet Journey"