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hello, I am acquainted with yours both conditions and requirements for payment, I wanted to recognize the author, accessory, value and real cost of my picture.

Japanese painting, Kano school or Kano style (can't see enough from the photographs), the inscription stating that the painter is following a painting by the Chinese painter Li Gonglin. However Li painted no pictures of carp, though other Chinese painters did.

One of the Japan experts here will read the signature easily, but I'm afraid I regularly mess up Japanese names. Your painter's surname seems to be Hinohara, though I probably got that wrong too.

Japanese Kano school painting of a carp, symbol of strength and perserverance.

The first part of the signature s difficult to interpret; the second part reads 'Kano Fukagawa Fujiwara Ukinobu ga' (Painted by Kano Fukagawa...); seals 'Fukagawa' and Ukinobu'.

The artist was a mid to late Edo period (late 18th- early 19th c) Kano school painter, also called Kano Yusen Ukinobu.
Not mentioned in Roberts, ‘A Dictionary of Japanese Artists’ nor at the Japanese Wikipedia page on Kano school artists, so assume it was a minor artist from a local branch.

The commercial value in and outside Japan of this type of hanging scrolls, from a minor artist, remains modest, even in good condition.
It is always an asset if the scroll is accompanied by an original and/or inscribed storage box.

Guy.

以李竜眠图, "taking/using/on the basis of a picture by Li Longmian" (I don't know the Japanese pronounciation), where "Longmian" is an alternative name of Song painter Li Gonglin.

I see my streak of screwing up Japanese names continues....

Thanks, the name of the Northern Song painter Li Longmin (also Li Gonglin) in Japanese is Ri Ryumin. This Chinese painter seems to have had a great impact on Japanese Kano artists.

I read the full signature now a 'Omô Rin Ryûmin (no) zu; Kano Fukagawa Fujiwara Ukinobu ga' (Scene according to Ri Ryumin....).

Guy.

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