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If I could ask for anyone's help to decipher what the poem says on this watercolor would be much appreciated. Also if anybody knows the artist who painted it, I would love to find out more about him or her. Last but not least when do you think this was made. Thanks in advance for everyon's help!

Hi
The mounting proportions of this screen seem to be Korean. It is not a shoji screen.
Regards
Sue

I would love to know what it's called if it is not shoji screen, thanks for your time and information. It's paper art with a silk border in a wooden frame with a black fabric back. It is approximately 6' x 5'

Hi Daniel,
Japanese art is more my thing . In Japan this would be called a byobu. The structure of your screen will be made in a similar manner to a byobu, but the layout of the artwork is slightly different.

A Japanese screen will have artwork surrounded by 2 brocade borders in the same way as yours. But the Korean screens have a heavier base at the bottom, whereas the Japanese byobu has even borders top bottom and sides.

A shoji screen is Japanese and normally has no artwork. It is a lattice grid core with plain white paper stretched across the surface of one side. This gives a pleasing shadow affect when the light shines through.

Byobu also have this same lattice grid at their core , but are covered in a series of paper layers that incorporate pockets of air to provide a cushiony surface for the artwork on the upper layer. Mounting byobu is quite a complicated procedure and has a long apprenticeship in Japan.

I don't know about Korean screens , but I would assume that the mounting technique is similar to that of the Japanese ones.Traditional Korean artworks will carry writing in "chinese" not the modern phonetic Korean script.
Hope this is some help /explanation
Regards
Sue

the picture title is all about good luck and good fortune, the artist's name is 高永锺, however that is pronounced in Korean if the consensus is that this is Korean, the date is equivalent to 1984

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