To provide a gravestone by adhering a sheet showing the epitaph which includes a posthumous Buddhist name, date of death, the deceased, age of the deceased, the crest of the family and the like, instead of the conventional manner in which the epitaph is engraved on a gravestone or epitaph base made of stone by using a chisel or sand blasting method.

A sheet cut out to the figure conforming to the patternof characters or the design is adhered to a epitaph base of gravestone. A glass plate is attached to the front side of the epitaph base for sandwiching the sheet between the glass plate and the epitaph base.