Education
He studied at Musashino Art School, now known as Musashino Art University, a progressive university with a curriculum in fine arts and industrial design.
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He studied at Musashino Art School, now known as Musashino Art University, a progressive university with a curriculum in fine arts and industrial design.
Higurashi was the cover artist for Big Comic, a Japanese manga magazine, for more than forty years, from 1970 until fall 2011. Higurashi was raised in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture. He became head of character illustration at Big Comic in 1970.
Each issue of Big Comic during this era featured a large caricature of a famous individual on the cover, typically sports stars, actors and, politicians.
All were drawn by Higurashi in his signature style of a large head relative to a small body. His drawings became a trademark of the magazine.
Higurashi was well known for his work outside of Big Comic. The series ran from 1981 until 2006.
In addition to his illustrations, Higurashi also illustrated for the defunct magazine Rapita, and worked as a business advertisement designer.
To mark his 25th anniversary as the cover artist with Big Comic, the Shogakukan publisher released a book of his cover illustrations in 1994 called "Big na Kao". Higurashi stepped down as cover illustrator of Big Comic in fall 2011 due to declining health. He died in Tokyo from pneumonia on April 13, 2012, at the age of 75.