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I'd appreciate any help with the inscription and signature on a Japanese lacquer tray.

Dear Lisa

I am just a student of the japanese language, so I couldn't decypher some parts well, but I think this is a classical-style poetic inscription (maybe a Chinese-influenced Japanese poetry - Kanshi), likely referencing a scene of a traveler or hermit looking at a landscape. Here is as far as I could go with my broke japanese: 叶波（or 吐波）Kōha ("Echoing/rustling waves" - sound of wind in pine, like "waves")
鹿事 Kaji ( "Deer matters" - that it is "mountain or a seclusion in the wild)
觀松 Kanshō (Viewing the pine trees.) The other is 笑山 Shōzan (This is the name of the artist).

I hope someone could help you from here to translate it beter.

The best,
Renato

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