Matsubara Naoko RCA (松原 直子, born 1937 in Tokushima) is a celebrated Japanese-Canadian print-maker.

She then pursued an MFA in the School of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on a Fulbright Travel Grant, and since then has traveled extensively and taught at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn—a rare distinction for a Japanese woman.

Naoko Matsubara’s father was the chief priest in a Shinto shrine in Kyoto.

Naoko Matsubara’s style is influenced by her teacher Munakata Shiko (1903–1975), who worked in the mingei (folk art) tradition.

[14] In 2024, she will have her first Art Gallery of Ontario solo exhibition with 20 woodcut prints, anchored by Tagasode (2014), a monumental 2 meter long single-sheet print which is the culmination of Matsubara's printmaking career.