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Anonymous Chinese painter of the Western Han period  · Public domain

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Confucius

孔子 zh 공자 ko

5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician

  • Child of Shuliang He and Yan Zhengzai
  • Married to Qiguan Shi
  • Dated c. 551 BCE – c. 479 BCE

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Affiliation

As a third party recorded it, often for one period of a life.

Family tree

The family as a list · 6

Family 6

Teachers and students

Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

What the records tie them to

Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.

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Connections

Documented influence 2

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

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