Giichi Kuwashige was a Yōga (lit. "Western-style") painter born in present-day Iwakuni City in Yamaguchi Prefecture. After graduating from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts he went on to study at California State University and in Paris under the academic painter Jean-Paul Laurens. After returning to Japan, Kuwashige frequently showed works at the annual Teiten (Imperial Arts Academy Exhibition) and he became a member of the Academy in 1931. He was also a member of the Ohira Western-style painting association and an art instructor at Jiyu Gakuen in Tokyo. From 1932 to 1933, he returned to France to continue his studies. Kuwashige's later paintings are marked by a brighter and more colorful palette, an artistic shift likely inspired by his second period of study in Europe.

Giichi Kuwashige works are in the collections of the Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum and Jiyu Gakuen.