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Please help translate the writing (or parts thereof) on this copper plaque by Yotsuya Seibi (Masami, Masayoshi) (aka Gozan).
Thanks

獨酌欣逢重九 黄花開處放人來
大正乙丑春日
五山人
正美刻
Drinking Alone on the Double Ninth Festival; Where the Chrysanthemums Bloom, People Are Welcomed
In the Wood-Ox Year of Taisho Era (1925) On a Spring Day
Gozanjin
Engraved by Seibi

Most likely Yotsuya Seibi

With regards,
I.Nagy

Many thanks I. Nagy; this adds to the enjoyment of the plaque. Indeed, Yotsuya Seibi. The is a plaque of similar subject by him at the Ashmolian in Oxford https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16520.
To the right of the poem there is a seal script inscription that looks like Koyama (小山). Could that be the person who wrote the poem?

The two rectangular seal script characters visible at the very end read 四谷 (Yotsuya)

The engraved poem generally regarded as lines adapted or rewritten by literati, scholars, or painters and calligraphers from Meng Haoran’s famous Tang Dynasty poem “Passing by an Old Friend’s Cottage”(孟浩然　過故人莊)
　
By the way, I just realized that I left out the last character from the first line of the poem. Here it is in its entirety:
獨酌欣逢重九日 黄花開處放人來

Regards,
I.Nagy

Thanks again. I was reading these two characters in the squares on the very left as Gozan, since seal script for Go is many times written as X with upper and lower bars, and with some imagination the lower one (inside the square) can read as san.
I was also asking about the two characters in rectangle to the very right. Unfortunately, they are hardly visible. If necessary I can take a clearer photo of just these two; but maybe the inverted image that I now attach is clearer. I was reading it as Koyama, but maybe not, and wandering if this could be the author of the poem.

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