Question Please read signature/seal on scroll 7 lucky gods

[Ger]

Please read text, signature and seal on this scroll with the 7 lucky gods at work...
A partial result would be welcome too.

 

[Majestic]

乙酉囗年囗囗
囗楽堂囗囗

The first part is a date using the 60-year cyclical Chinese zodiac calendar. Its a date in either 1885, 1945 or 2005 (etc).
The second one should contain the name of the artist. I can only read Gakudō (or maybe Rakudō - both readings are possible). I can't make out the other bits.

The right side of the seal looks like 渡邊 (Watanabe), which is a very common Japanese last name. But I can't be sure because it looks like an incomplete impression.

 

[Majestic]

And the left side of the seal is maybe 登 (Noboru, which would be a given name). So WATANABE Noboru for the name of the artist? A very common name - like John Smith - so hard to pinpoint him by this name alone.

 

[Ger]

And the left side of the seal is maybe 登 (Noboru, which would be a given name). So WATANABE Noboru for the name of the artist? A very common name - like John Smith - so hard to pinpoint him by this name alone.

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Don't ask me how, but within minutes I found the seal here:

『渡辺崋山　布袋図画賛：掛軸』

渡辺崋山（わたなべかざん　Kazan Watanabe）寛政5年—天保12年江戸時代後期に活躍した武士であり画家の巨匠です。通称は登。谷文晁に絵を教わった門人…

ameblo.jp

Proving you were right with 渡邊登.

However that name is not mentioned in the text and google does not clear anything up for me.
Does it say who uses this seal? Attached the image concerned.

 

[Ger]

Here it says Watanabe Kazan was also known as 渡邊登

渡邊華山 - 維基百科，自由的百科全書

zh.wikipedia.org

If that's right would the seal prove the scroll is his?

 

[Majestic]

Wow. We should go into business together. That first site mentions:

渡辺崋山（わたなべかざん Kazan Watanabe）
寛政5年—天保12年

江戸時代後期に活躍した武士であり画家の巨匠です。
通称は登。谷文晁に絵を教わった門人です。

Kazan Watanabe (1793-1841)
A samurai who was also a great painter living at the end of the Edo era . His civilian name was Noboru (登). He was apprenticed to, and studied art under, Tani Bunchō.

 

[Ger]

The Chinese wiki says after Google:
"October 11, 1841 (October 11, 1841), Kazan, Watanabe, was in search of his mother, but he was unable to reach his mother. After his death, he signed his will [his will was signed], "Unfaithful and unfilial Noboru Watanabe." [2] One of the brightest lights in the history of modern Japan, the light of thought, suddenly faded away in the turbulent political environment. At this time, Huashan [Kazan] was only 48 years old. [1]"
[in brackets what I think was meant]

So Noboru Watanabe was indeed his real name, I'ld think...

 

[Ger]

乙酉囗年囗囗
囗楽堂囗囗

The first part is a date using the 60-year cyclical Chinese zodiac calendar. Its a date in either 1885, 1945 or 2005 (etc).

Kazan Watanabe (1793-1841)
That would make the date 1825.

 

[Toritoribe]

Watanabe Kazan is a big name. It's known that there are countless fakes of his works. Sorry to say this, but it doesn't seem to me that the two seals, yours and the one from 必携 落款字典 in the page you linked, i.e., the genuine one, are identical.

 

[Ger]

@Toritoribe, yes I was aware of the difference in seals. I showed it to confirm the reading in the first place. I realize the odds ae against mine being real and the other fake. But do or did painters have more than one stamp of their particular seals so that both could be real?

 

[Ger]

What can be said about the signature?
Does it look like any of the many names Kazan used?
See:

渡邊華山 - 維基百科，自由的百科全書

zh.wikipedia.org