Help translating cursive calligraphy

Pete J.

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Hi all, wondering if someone can help translate my cursive calligraphy artwork. Appreciate the help!

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I think you're not local Japanese, just like me. 😅 I can't understand it yet though, I think it's written in hiragana. is it?
 
It's a mixture of hiragana and kanji, with some kanji used as "hentaigana". Difficult to read under normal circumstances, but when its highly cursive it is even more difficult. All I can read is the writer's art name at the far left of the top picture 霍済光 ("Kakusaikō", other readings are possible). Those kanji are repeated in the red seal next to the name.
The seal below that says 燕山楚之印 (Shōzanso-no-in, it means "the seal of Shōzanso"), so Shōzanso is probably another "art name" used by the writer.
 
I don't know, but I am guessing those are Japanese names in kanji...Exploring Japanese names is so exciting.
 
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