Other than the two major schools of tenkoku in the Edo period--the Kintai school and the Kotai school--there were the Mito school established by people such as Kyosho TACHIHARA and the trend of tenkoku by the literati such as Syunsui RAI.
今体派と古体派が江戸時代における篆刻の二大潮流といえるが、その他にも水戸において立原杏所などの水戸派や頼春水などが中心となった文人学者の篆刻の流れも見られた。