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Figures — East Asian traditions

The figures filed under East Asian traditions.

People on the record,
and people in the telling.

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Figures in East Asian traditions

China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and the diaspora, roughly 1200 BCE to the present.

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Ordered by how many Wikipedias have an article on each — a measure of how widely a subject is written about, not of its importance to any tradition.

Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞; b. 1786, d. 1865) · Public domain

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East Asian traditions

Daoism, Confucian practice, Chinese folk religion, Shinto and Korean tradition.

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