Bunrei and Rokkoku TANI, the father of Buncho TANI, had known each other, therefore Bunrei became the master in Buncho's boyhood and conveyed the Kano School.
文麗と谷文晁の父谷麓谷とは旧知の仲であったため少年期の文晁の師となり狩野派を伝えた。