These words composed by the priest Daiten commence the epitaph for the tombstone of the artist Ike Taiga, who died on the nineteenth day of the fourth lunar month of 1776. The tombstone itself was installed the following year at Taiga’s family temple, Jōkō-ji, in Kyoto. Daiten Kenjō (1719–1801), abbot of another Kyoto temple, Shōkoku-ji, had been Taiga’s...