Utagawa YOSHICHIKA.Actor Nakamura Shikan.1863Polychrome woodcut, 360x244 mm. The round seal called Aratame over the cartouche with the signature. Good condition.

The actor's portrait is inside the top circle. Another portrait of the actor is included in an album of 'ukiyo-e' woodblock prints of 'kabuki' actors, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales of Sidney, dated 1863. Yoshichika Utagawa, active 1850's - 90’s, was a talented but little known pupil of Kuniyoshi.