Chinese, Japanese or Korean

I picked up this painting today and am needing to see if somebody can translate the signature for me, also, what would this style painting be called, looks like a bun ch of lines.

 

looks like a bunch of dots....so I'll say a print

 

It is Japanese.
The dots are very big, is it painted/printed on some kind of rough fabric or hardboard?

 

Thats what i was thinking, guess I'll take it out of frame later this morn and I'll post what i find, thanks.

 

How about the signature, any luck on that?

 

This could be pastel chalk on a very rough open weave pastel paper.

 

Houseful win's the prize, it's called Canson Mi-Teintes Pastel Paper and it is a chalk/pastel painting, took it out of the frame. Now all I need is to see if somebody can translate the signature. Thanks everybody.

 

Houseful beat me to it. I do colored pencil work and I've used that paper before when I want the 'tooth' of the paper to show. Nice piece.

 

Yes, it is. Certainly something out of the norm.

 

I think it's very nice! Can't help with the "signature" but the flowers are rudbeckia.

 

I thought they were echinacea purpurea.

 

Could be, AJ. My "Western Garden Book" uses both echinacea purpurea and rudbeckia purpurea as synonymous in the heading for that plant. I thought of rudbeckia first, but both apply.