Yasuhide Kobashi (古橋 矢須秀,Kobashi Yasuhide; 1931–2003) was a Japanesewoodblock print artist, painter, sculptor and stage designer.^[1]

He was born inKojima inOkayama Prefecture, 1931. His father was a ceramic artist and head of the Kyoto Industrial Craft Company. Kobashi learned printmaking from thesōsaku hanga (creative prints) masterUnichi Hiratsuka.

In 1955, Kobashi graduated from the Kyoto College of Crafts and Textiles, and in 1959, he moved to New York City.Nelson Rockefeller (governor of New York and later vice-president) was Kobashi's patron, and acquired one of the artist's sculptures for theNew York State Executive Mansion inAlbany.^[2]

Kobashi is best known for hissōsaku hanga woodblock prints and his sculptures intended to be rearranged, which he called "self-constructions". TheCleveland Museum of Art, theHonolulu Museum of Art, theMetropolitan Museum of Art, theMuseum of Modern Art (New York City), theNeuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, New York), theWeisman Art Museum (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), andSouthern Illinois University Edwardsville are among the public collections holding work by Kobashi.

• Baron, Virginia Olsen,The Seasons of Time; Tanka Poetry of Ancient Japan, Illustrated by Yasuhide Kobashi, New York, Dial Press, 1968.
• Eichman, Shawn and Sawako Takemura Chang, Self-construction: The Art of Kobashi Yasuhide,Honolulu Academy of Arts, Vol. 82, No. 6, Nov./Dec., 2010, pp. 6–7.
• Garfias, Robert and Lincoln Kirstein,Gagaku: The Music and Dances of the Japanese Imperial Household with calligraphy by Yasuhide Kobashi, New York, Theatre Arts Books, 1959.
• Kirstein, Lincoln,Kobashi. Recent Sculpture by Yasuhide Kobashi, New York, Allan Stone, 1961.
• Pratt Graphic Art Center,Eleven Prints by Eleven Printmakers, New York,Pratt Graphic Art Center, 1961.

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• 1931 births
• 2003 deaths
• 20th-century American sculptors
• American male sculptors
• 20th-century American printmakers
• 20th-century American male artists
• 21st-century Japanese painters

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