Tsuchiya Yasuchika VI, more commonly known as Masachika was born in Shimotsuke Province and worked in Edo. He was the first son of Kunichika, the fifth Yasuchika. He was very prolific and many of his works found their way to the West during his lifetime. He was a student of Hagiya Katsuhira and of Tanaka Kiyotoshi, then became a retainer of the Satake daimyo of Akita, and died in 1861.