Ken Matsuzaki received a degree in Ceramic Art from Tamagawa University School of Fine Arts in Tokyo in 1972, after which he moved to Mashiko to apprentice with Tatsuzo Shimaoka. After a five-year apprenticeship, Matsuzaki established his own kiln, Yuushin Gama. Matsuzaki's works have a strong grounding in Mingei philosophy though his approach is very contemporary, introducing a focus on the oribe style with yohen, shino, and oribe glazing.

Matsuzaki’s work has been exhibited all over the world, and has been accepted into the permanent collections of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, Holderness School, Holderness, New Hampshire, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sackler Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa, Israel, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, and Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts