Kobashi Yasuhide

Kobashi Yasuhide was a Japanese-born, New York-based printmaker and sculptor who studied woodblock printmaking under the sosaku-hanga master Hiratsuka Un'ichi and graduated from the Kyoto College of Crafts and Textiles in 1955. After moving to New York in 1959, he expanded his practice with the support of patrons including Nelson Rockefeller, who acquired one of his sculptures for the New York State Executive Mansion. Known for his experimental woodblock prints and rearrangeable sculptures he called self-constructions, his works are held by MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Kobashi Yasuhide was active from 1931 to 2003. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.

Kobashi Yasuhide's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.

Kobashi Yasuhide's prints frequently feature abstract, figures, daily life, portraits, cats, music.

Original prints by Kobashi Yasuhide can be found in collections including Art Institute of Chicago, Honolulu Museum of Art, ukiyo-e.org.