In 1960,he was born in Kamino-cho, Saga City in Saga Prefecture.
From an early age, he grew up interested in the activities of “life”, such as animals and nature.
He was awakened to a joy of expressing something as an artist and entered Act Department of the College of Art, Nihon University,
but was strongly realized his lack of experience and experience as a source of expression.
He dropped out of university and traveled as a backpacker for about four years, mainly in Asia.
Along the way, he experienced that even ordinary things can be fresh, and he was touched by the excitement of “everyone’s alive!”.
That is when he decided to become an artist who expresses the “brilliance of life”.

He returns home with a vision of Tosaiga, a ceramic painting using Arita porcelain techniques in his hometown, but he continues to be refused by Arita craftmen as impossible.
In 1987, finally Yuki Hayama, who is famous for his delicate painting took him at the age of 27. And he started research for establishing Tosaiga.
Conventional Arita Porcelain was able to withstand painting and firing only about four times at most, but after trial and error, he succeeded in painting and firing more than ten tims in order to achieve deeper and more vivid colors.
In 1990, he became independent and started his Tosaiga creation activities by starting his studio called “Konn-shinn” in Yamauchi-cho, Takeo City, Saga Prefecture.

After that, he continued his research in search of deeper and more beautiful colors and brilliance, and in addition to creating works, he visited India, Mongolia, Dunhuang, and other places to study techniques and subjects.
He continued to grow as an artist and began to open solo exhibitions in various places, and in 2003 he changed his studio’s name to Kazuhisa Kusaba Kobo(studio), and the following year he opened a gallery directly managed by the studio in Saga.

Moreover, with being shocked by the children’s murder events occured one after another, he wrote picture book series, “Festival of Life”with the desire to tell the preciousness of life to children.
Later, the book was adopted as a textbook on morality in elementary schools, and he became to be invited to lectures from various places.

In 2014, the gallery in Saga was renewed to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the studio, and in 2018, the gallery space “龗(okami) GINZA OKAMI” was opened in Ginza 5-chome, Tokyo as part of celebration of the 30th anniversary.
In 2020, in commemoration of his 60th birthday, as he returned to his origin of his longing for the brilliance of “life” and created a bold and playful “Jizai (free)” series that differs from the delicate expression of conventional works.
In addition, he conitnues to improve as an artist by creating “NyoiHouju”, the source of the power of dragons with his passionate motivation to express “life” after 30 years since the establishment of Tosaiga.