Yasuhide Kobashi (古橋 矢須秀, Kobashi Yasuhide, 1931–2003) was a Japanese
woodblock print artist, painter, sculptor and stage designer.[1] He was born in
Kojima in
Okayama Prefecture. His father was a ceramic artist and head of the Kyoto Industrial Craft Company. Kobashi learned printmaking from the sōsaku hanga (creative prints) master
Unichi Hiratsuka (1895–1997). 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 the
New York State Executive Mansion in
Albany.[2]
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.