Painting / drawing Japanese fighter?

Can anyone help me figure out what my parents' left me? It is a small painting or drawing of a man I think looks like a Japanese fighter. The frame looks ancient, the glass looks very modern.
Here is a closeup:
http://forumbilder.se/F8UJ4/dsc02000
And here is the backside:
http://forumbilder.se/F8UJ4/dsc02001

 

Chinese , I think.

 

This might help ......

 

Is it a painting on silk? The backing on your frame suggests this to be mid to late 19th century.

 

Thanks for making the pictures show up directly on the forum. I tried to do that with another object but was only able to make one picture visible. How do you do that? I don't think any silk is involved. I just had a look at it and it looks like old paper to me. Do you think I should open the frame and look for clues?

 

I'd call it an archer, not a fighter.

 

Since you already have your pics on-line, the easiest way is to go to your picture site, place your cursor over the picture you want to transfer, right click, hit copy picture, come here to the reply box, right click, and paste it into the text box

If you don't have pics on-line already, using the upload a file option at the bottom of the reply box will load pictures directly. Be sure to hit the full size option when uploading.

As always, with either method, pics need to be resized before loading.

 

I agree with Brad that the framing indicates an older piece. It's a charming image, well executed in my opinion.

 

I don't think you need to open this. Nice little painting of a 19th century archer by an unknown artist. It would be nice to identify the figure further. I am also thinking Chinese. Bears some resemblance to Mongolian archers but I am not sure.

 

Since I am using a MacBook I can't right click. Oh, how I miss my old PC. I'll try to figure out how to use the upload function in abetter way next time I want to show something. Thanks a lot for letting me know how you do it verybrad.

 

I just opened it and I believe I found a clue. Well, not the kind of clue that tells the origins but probably how it ended up being mine. My grandfather moved from Sweden to the U.S.A. around 1915. He moved back to Sweden in the late 1920's. This painting (water color?) is painted on extremely thin paper, close to transparent. As a background I found a piece of cardboard and on its backside there were parts of a very old calendar. So I guess this is something my grandpa brought to Sweden when he returned from his American adventure.

 

Here is the painting held in front of a light.

 

Yes, Chinese, 19th c and made for export. It comes likely from a whole album of those paintings...

 

Probably rice paper. The calendar could be 1910, the preceding same calendar was 1898, and the following same calendar was 1921.

 

Brad's picture is of the famous "Parthian shot." Now that's War!

The one Pingus has is afternoon sport.

 

When I post pictures that I already have online, I copy the direct link. I paste the link into envelope looking icon above, the one with the mountain and moon and paste the direct link into that box.

I really like your piece.