Közi (pronounced Kouji / こうじ) is a Japanese guitarist and singer, who is best known for having been the guitarist of the popular visual kei act Malice Mizer from 1992 to 2001. Later he was part of the industrial / darkwave duo Eve Of Destiny from 2002 to 2007 and also started to release solo material.
After being rather inactive for a few years, only playing occasionally as a solo act or with various live-only projects, he first joined XA-VAT in 2010 as a guitarist and then, joined by musicians he worked with during the previous few years, he formed his own band, ZIZ (3) in 2012 where he also sings.