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I purchased a painting and a half-size companion painting last weekend at a charity yard sale. Unfortunately I found the canvas was real dry when I accidentally poked two holes in the half-sized painting with items in another bag that I was carrying around with the paintings. In hind-sight that was foolish on my part, but it can't be undone so, OUCH.

I like the scene in the larger painting, thus the reason that I bought both paintings.

I have a problem though, I cannot read oriental writing. Can anybody assist me in identifying where the painting that is marked might be from, who might have painted it and if it is dated in these marks too?

Thank you for any assistance you can provide.

I am doing some research, as I have been trying to do (when I happened across this site), and found a couple of sites that have words or symbols similar to the angled\curved line at the bottom of the right column with the two angled dots to the right of it and the hash on the left and wonder if that is part of a word meaning unity or of the heart. I am trying to guess at what the painter may have been thinking of if he or she was putting a title on the painting or not. I am not sure how to combine letters to make words, or if I am even searching the correct language. I have looked at letter/word examples of several different languages and I am thinking Chinese is the language that I have been able to make a similar match or two between parts of the symbols shown here.

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