More Murakami Takashi puzzles

[oshmans]

I had such a great result last time that I have another set to bring. Here is another set of characters from Murakami Takashi. (He is Japanese, but sometimes uses classical Japanese characters that overlap with classic Chinese characters.)

 

1) What could be the reading of the large black characters on the green print? (I suspect the bottom character is Takashi, but not certain because the writing is so stylized and it may be a slightly different character)

 

2) What could be the reading of the black characters on the gray print? (They are redundant with the green except for the lowest character)

 

3) They may be too small, but on the green print can anyone read what is in the little writing on the upper right in the box? The top character is probably 不.

 

(I know that the red stamp on the green print is 澗声 written from right to left and is composed of "stream" +"voice" )

(From the previous response, I know the two people on the grey print are carrying a bag with  氏隆 on it.)

 

 

[dwq]

The green one reads xxx法橋隆, and the grey one xxx隆画. xxx are the same in both but I can't make them out.

https://kotobank.jp/word/法橋-133437

法橋 Hokkyou, a buddist title / rank for monks and later, artists. He's self-proclaiming to be of the same rank as 尾形光琳 Ogata Kourin which some Japanese people find quite pretentious.

Here's another example where he uses the title.

http://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/5498/chinese-symbols-on-a-murakami-painting

隆 is of course his name.

画 means to draw which here marks he drew the painting.

[oshmans]

Thanks. Another extremely helpful response!

Murakami putting himself alongside the greats is consistent with writing on his other prints.

 

The first two characters are driving me crazy.

 

I know the 3rd from the top is ”々”. In Japanese, it is used to mark a repeated character like a ditto mark. For example in the town name 野々市. 野 'no' is repeated via the 々.

 

The 3rd character in the Murakami clips above is a short-hand repeated version of the second character from the top.

The two top characters seem to have the same left radical which is the shorthand for 心 in characters like 情. I find the other parts of the characters too stylized to read.

 

Anyone have a guess for the top two characters in each of the excerpts?

[oshmans]

Also the characters on green in the box on the upper right. I think I have the 1st 2nd and 4th.

不擇　毳

What might be the 3rd?

[oshmans]

Ok, thanks to you and one of my friends I've figured out all of it except for the characters in the top right box on the green print.

 

The three large characters beginning at the top of each of the excerpts say something like 恠崎々 or 恠奇々. It should be read as 恠恠奇奇 or Kaikai Kiki, the name of Murakami's company! (The 奇 part is not adequately explained since is has an extra bit on it--probably to balance out the script.)

 

The final mystery are the characters in the box. I suspect that it is a name of some sort. With my friend, we decided that the closest characters we could find were 不擇　翁. The final character possibly serving as a sort of title (it's "ogina", a noh mask reference). We still have no idea about the 3rd character, but 楽 seems to be incorporated in the upper right part of it. 

 

Any guesses for the 3rd character in the box?

 

Here is a better picture: