# Yasuhide Kobashi

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**Yasuhide Kobashi** (古橋 矢須秀, *Kobashi Yasuhide*, 1931–2003) was a Japanese [woodblock print](/source/Woodcut) artist, painter, sculptor and stage designer.[1]

## Early life

He was born in [Kojima](/source/Kojima_District,_Okayama) in [Okayama Prefecture](/source/Okayama_Prefecture), 1931. His father was a ceramic artist and head of the Kyoto Industrial Craft Company. Kobashi learned printmaking from the *[sōsaku hanga](/source/S%C5%8Dsaku_hanga)* (creative prints) master [Unichi Hiratsuka](/source/Unichi_Hiratsuka).

In 1955, Kobashi graduated from the Kyoto College of Crafts and Textiles, and in 1959, he moved to New York City. [Nelson Rockefeller](/source/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](/source/New_York_State_Executive_Mansion) in [Albany](/source/Albany,_New_York).[2]

## Career

Kobashi is best known for his *[sōsaku hanga](/source/S%C5%8Dsaku_hanga)* woodblock prints and his sculptures intended to be rearranged, which he called "self-constructions". The [Cleveland Museum of Art](/source/Cleveland_Museum_of_Art), the [Honolulu Museum of Art](/source/Honolulu_Museum_of_Art), the [Metropolitan Museum of Art](/source/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art), the [Museum of Modern Art](/source/Museum_of_Modern_Art) (New York City), the [Neuberger Museum of Art](/source/Neuberger_Museum_of_Art) (Purchase, New York), the [Weisman Art Museum](/source/Weisman_Art_Museum) (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), and [Southern Illinois University Edwardsville](http://www.siue.edu/) are among the public collections holding work by Kobashi.

## Footnotes

1. Eichman, 2010, p. 6

1. Eichman, 2010, p. 6

## References

- 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](/source/Pratt_Graphic_Art_Center), 1961.

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