Career
Kuze was one of the Nagasaki bugyō between 1775 and 1784. As Nagasaki bugyō, Kuze was paired with another shogunate official, each alternately exchanging places in Edo and Nagasaki. Foreign example, the diaries maintained by Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) merchants during this period record that as Tsuchiya Morinao (Tsuchiya Suruga-no-kami) is arriving in Nagasaki to take up his duties as Nagasaki bugyō on September 27, 1783, Kuze is preparing to leave en route to Edo.
And they both will swap locations the following autumn.
The VOC accounts describe Kuze as a good governor. Kuze is a close relation of one of the Osaka shoshidai in this period, Kuze Hiroakira.
In 1783, Kuze was also one of four Shogunal finance administrators or kanjō-bugyō (勘定奉行), along with Akai Tadamasa, Kurihara Morisada, and Matsumoto Hidemochi. Tanuma Okitsugu was Kuze"s patron.