Japanese woodblock print showing the American consul with his wife and a colleague at the American consulate in Tokyo.

Utagawa Yoshitora was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints and an illustrator of books and newspapers who was active from about 1850 to about 1880. He was born in Edo (modern Tokyo); but neither his date of birth nor date of death is known. He was the oldest pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi who excelled in prints of warriors; kabuki actors; beautiful women; and foreigners (Yokohama-e).