近松門左衛門
Ninomiya Sontoku, Ikkyū, Arakida Moritake, Itō Jinsai, Musō Soseki, Shimazu Tadayoshi, Ōta Nanpo, Matsudaira Sadanobu, Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Yoshida Shōin, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Takuan, Takizawa Bakin, Hirata Atsutane, Ōta Dōkan, Saigyō Hōshi, Kyokutei Bakin, Yamaoka Tesshū, Watanabe Kazan, Yamanoue no Okura, Fujiwara no Teika, Sen no Rikyū, Sakamoto Ryōma, Nakae Tōju, Rennyo, Minamoto no Sanetomo, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Takuan Sōhō, Sugawara no Michizane, Nichiren, Hon'inbō Sansa Motoori Norinaga and many others.