"A wild goose go home To raise his tomb in his homeland Built his monument in Tokyo" (1912 (Meiji 45), Hekigotou)
Hekigotou's tomb (the front side) Hekigotou Kawahigashi, Age of 65 (the reverse side) Died on Feb.1, 1937 (Showa 12) (the reverse side) The front of monument : The deceased wrote in life The back of monument : Ryosai Bikuni of Bairinji Temple
Hekigotou died of typhoid complicated by blood poisoning on Feb.1, 1937 (Showa 12). Aged 65. It had been said that it was snowing on that day. On Feb.5, the final service for his pupil, has filled the post of a chief priest.
His ashes ere buried in the grave of Hotoji Temple in Nishiyama, his country home, Matsuyama that is his parents' resting place, according to the desire of Hekigotou in life. (The tomb on the left-hand in the upper picture is his late father, Seikei's grave).
And yet, his other grave was set up at Bairinji Temple where his shared ashes were buried.
The four characters of "The Hekigotou's grave" on the gravestone were Hekigotou's own handwriting in his last years.
Haiku originator in Osaka, Shoko Kameda said about this epitaph by Hekigotou's own handwriting on Feb.2, 1940 (Showa 15);
-Though Hekigotou's server in Matsuyama, the late Sanban Fujita, asked Hekigotou to write his epitaph while he was alive. Hekigotou prevented his ask and wrote this epitaph saying "You are young yet, I'll write my own epitaph,".-The calligraphy of Hekigotou;
Hekigotou's style of handwriting was said as Rikucho-sho, that had the unique style, and just like strange pictures.
But the free style Haiku originators tried to be the first to devote themselves to this style, as the new style Haiku dominated the whole country.
Hekigotou, he modeled after Shiki's style of calligraphy at first, was impressed by the powerful style of the stone monument and the rubbed copy of it in the period of Rikucho of China that were presented by his friend, Fusetsu Nakamura on January of 1907 (Meiji 40). Since that time, Hekigotou began to write in the rugged style of Rikucho calligraphy.
The characters on this Hekigotou's epitaph was the representative style of Rikucho-sho calligraphy.
