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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
I can't help but posit that these are Chinese, not Japanese.
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I am 99.99% certain that the first two are in Japanese. It's a special kind of Japanese used on these art pieces. I only wish I were educated enough to read it. OP may possess what should belong in a museum if the piece is genuine. The first two are not from a piece that normal people own nor was it drawn for such people. Quite possibly, it was produced for Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Are the first two pics from the same piece? If so, there must be a drwaing of pine trees on the ruins of a battle field in Kawachi, part of present-day Osaka.
The second pic says the drawing was done on May 5, 1615. 元和 is a period in Japanese history (1615 - 1624). The way the date is stated is completely non-Chinese.