Gan Tanigawa (谷川 雁, December 25, 1923 – February 2, 1995) was a Japanese poet, critic, and social activist.
He was a student conscript in the military during World War II, but returned to the university and finished his degree in 1945.
While working he joined a poetry group which published a journal called Boin (母音).
In 1958 he moved to the Chikuhō region with Kazue Morisaki and Eishin Ueno [ja] and founded a poetry group and journal called Sakuru Mura (サークル村).
[4] Often his work focused on the local level, with hopes of that change then making an impact on a larger scale.