Yasse Tabuchi, born Yasukazu Tabuchi (?? ??) on 20 May 1921 in Kitaky?sh?, Japan, and died on 24 November 2009 in Vauhallan, south of Paris, was a 20th-century Japanese watercolour painter, copper engraver, lithographer and ceramicist. He worked in France from 1951 until his death.

In 1951, he left his family and Yokohama by boat for Marseille, and then moved back to Paris, settling at 21, rue Gazan, where Marie-Thérèse Auffray's studio was located. In 1959, he bought a farm in Vauhallan, Essonne, to give himself more space in which to work.

There he met Pierre Alechinsky and was strongly influenced by Surrealism. However, his works tended to move closer to abstraction, as with Femmes volantes.

In the second half of the 1950s, Tabuchi became particularly interested in lyrical abstraction, exploring chiaroscuro to produce canvases with very strong colour contrasts.

In 1976, he wrote an article for L'Œil entitled ‘Contemporary Japanese Art’.

In 1988, he illustrated a book by Susanne Jorn, Det dansende æsel.

Tabuchi also created architectural decorations in the Netherlands and Japan.

Yasse Tabuchi died on 24 November 2009 of bronchitis in Vauhallan.