was a Japanese woodblock print artist, painter, sculptor and stage designer. He was born in

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. 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.

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(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.Eichman, 2010, p. 6 Kobashi is best known for his '' sōsaku hanga'' woodblock prints and his sculptures intended to be rearranged, which he called "self-constructions". The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the

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are among the public collections holding work by Kobashi.

Footnotes

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,

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, 1961. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kobashi, Yasuhide Modern printmakers Sosaku hanga artists Modern sculptors Japanese sculptors Modern painters 20th-century American painters American male painters 21st-century American painters 20th-century Japanese painters American production designers 1931 births 2003 deaths 20th-century American sculptors American male sculptors 20th-century American printmakers 20th-century American male artists 21st-century Japanese painters