谷文晁：江户时代名画家，名正安，又名文五郎，字文晁、子方，号画学斋、写山楼，通称文五郎。父谷麓谷系名诗人，受家庭影响，从小酷爱中国文化，习汉文、汉诗，尤长于中国水墨丹青。他对元、明、清山水花鸟画之研究颇具特色。能熟练地掌握中国画的设色、泼墨技法，成为江户文人画的代表人物。曾学狩野派，后师中国北宗，亦受中国南宗及大和绘画的影响，创立一种新画派“南北派”，又称“东南派”。

建有画塾写山楼，膝下弟子众多。其妻谷干干（林氏）、妹妹谷舜英（谷秋香）、谷红兰等也作为女性画家颇有名气。其弟岛田元旦，养子谷文一，亲子谷文二都长于绘画，谷氏一门一度非常兴旺。可惜后来被视为继承者的谷文一、谷文二先后夭折，写山楼由此败落。

 谷文晁在画坛享有盛名，江户后期日本画坛巨擘之美誉，对他而言可谓名至宝归。他的门生渡边毕山、立原杏所、高久霭崖等，都是江户时代名画家。父谷麓谷系名诗人，学狩野派画家加藤文丽后转师渡边玄对，游历长崎时又得到中国清代画家张秋谷的教益并善讲西洋画技法融入日本画当中。他对元、明、清山水花鸟画之研究颇具特色。能熟练地掌握中国画的设色、泼墨技法，笔下题材无所不涉包罗万象.成为江户文人画的代表人物。他的门生渡边毕山、立原杏所、高久霭崖等，都是江户地方名画家。作品有《集古十种插图》《公余探胜图卷》《五柳先生图》等。

 Gu Wenchao (1763-1841), a famous painter in Edo period, Japan. He has extensively studied the hunting school, the Yuanshan school, the Southern painting (ink painting) and the Western painting methods, and learned from each other's expressive techniques, thus forming his own style. He has done illustrations for the catalogue of "Ten Kinds of Ancient Collections", and has also traveled to various places to draw a large number of landscape sketches. Among the disciples were Tianneng Village, Zhutian, Watanabe Huashan, Guwen I and Guwen II.

Gu Wenchao: A famous painter in the Edo period, named Zheng'an, also known as Wen Wulang, Wen Wenchao, Zifang, Number Painting Studio, Painting Tower, commonly known as Wen Wulang. Father Valley Lugu is a famous poet. Influenced by his family, he loved Chinese culture from childhood. He learned Chinese and Chinese poetry, especially Chinese ink and wash. His research on landscape flower-and-bird paintings in Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties is quite distinctive. Skilled in Chinese painting color design, ink splashing techniques, become a representative figure of Edo literati painting. Zeng Xue-ye School and later Shi-bei Sect of China were also influenced by Southern Sect of China and Dahe Painting, and created a new painting school, the "Southern and Northern Sect", also known as the "Southeastern Sect".

There are many disciples under the knee who build a painting school to write mountain towers. His wife Gu Gangan (Lin Shi), sister Gu Shunying (Gu Qiuxiang) and Gu Honglan are also well known as female painters. His younger brother Shimada, adopted son Gu Wenyi and his parents Gu Wenyi were both good at painting. Gu family was once very prosperous. Unfortunately, Gu Wenyi and Gu Wenyi, who were later regarded as successors, died one after another and wrote about the decline of the mountain building.

Gu Wenchao enjoys a great reputation in the art world. The great name of the Japanese painters in the late Edo period can be regarded as his most precious home. His disciples Watanabe Bishan, Liyuan Xingsuo, Gao Jiuyan and so on are all famous painters of the Edo era. Father Valley Lugu is a famous poet. After learning from Kato Wenli, a nomadic painter, he transferred to Watanabe Xuanbiao. During his travels to Nagasaki, he learned from Zhang Qiugu, a Chinese painter of the Qing Dynasty, and was good at introducing Western painting techniques into Japanese painting. His research on landscape flower-and-bird paintings in Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties is quite distinctive. Skilled in Chinese painting color design, ink-splashing techniques, the subject matter covered all aspects, become a representative figure of Edo literati painting. His disciples Watanabe Bishan, Liyuan Xingsuo, Gao Jiuyan and so on are all famous painters in Edo. His works include Ten Illustrations of Ancient Times, Exploration of Victory in Redundancy, Mr. Wuliu, etc.