 The only surviving official record of Utamaro is a stele at Senkō-ji Temple, which gives his death date as the 20th day of the 9th month of the year Bunka, which equates to 31 October 1806.The record states he was 54 by East Asian age reckoning, by which age begins at 1 rather than 0.From this a birth year of is deduced.