Shikishi Translation Help No 3

[Drago]

Hi guys,

 

I bought a new set of shikishi and this is the centerpiece. I just fell in love with it when I first saw it. Only downside is it is landscape format, not protrait, so it doesn't fit on my shikishi scroll - so what do I do now?

 

Unfortunately I can't figure out what it says on the sleeve. What I have so far is not much: 金魚xx and the name xxxx

 

I'd appreciate any help.

 

Oh, and if anyone knows what kind of painting technique that is, I'd like to know. It's definitely not oil or ink. But it is raised, so it must be some kind of paste or plaster...

 

 

[SteveM]

「金魚遊図」

 

Picture of goldfish at play

 

Can't get the artist's name though... And its a weird way to write 金, with the two strokes appearing on the upper half of the kanji instead of the lower half. 

[k morita]

Hi,

 

The signature is 景 泉(Kei-sen).

Maybe this painter is Yamaguchi(family name) Keisen. (山口景泉)

[Drago]

Thank you Steve and Morita-dono, but what are those to kanji after the Keisen?

 

EDIT: Oh, Morita-dono, I think you are right. http://item.rakuten.co.jp/auc-agmaeda/nihonga-keisen/ has a similar signature and the kanji after Keisen are better readable.

[k morita]

Hi,

 

景泉自題　wrote by Keisen.

[Drago]

Thank you very much!

[Baka Gaijin]

Good morning Tobias.,

 

Looking at image 4, it looks as though sand or grit, maybe even tonoko (powdered dried tofu) has been mixed with the pigment of the fish, to bulk it up and separate it from the ground colour which has the flatness and opacity of a water based body colour or gouache.

[Drago]

Malcolm, very interesting! Thank you very much.