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Utagawa Kuniyoshi  · Public domain

Lineages

Four kinds of succession, kept apart.

Branches of traditions, teachers and students, holders of an office, and families — each drawn its own way.

  • 178 traditions with branches
  • 1,215 teachers and students
  • 186 offices with holders
  • 298 houses with members
Browse the lines One person, four lines

Four relationships, four colours.

Each kind has its own colour, its own mark and its own section, wherever it appears.

An example from the records

Interwoven, not identical.

One person can stand in every kind of line at once. Here is Alexander the Great, drawn from the records' own statements: each line keeps its own mode, its own colour and its own words, and none is read as another.

Alexandros IV of Macedon appears twice: named in the records as succeeding Alexander the Great as pharaoh, and recorded as a child of Alexander the Great. Two statements, in two modes; the page never draws one as the reason for the other.

How the kinds are kept apart
Alexander the Great 20 July 356 BCE – 10 June 323 BCE

Each line reads from Alexander the Great down.

  1. Tradition Affiliation

  2. Teacher Transmission

  3. Office Succession in office

  4. House Family

Browse the lines

One kind at a time, each in its own colour: the tabs never show two kinds as one.

Affiliation

Many paths. Shared histories.

Traditions with branches recorded under them, most-branched first.

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Transmission

Teachers and students

Teachings passed from teacher to student.

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Succession in office

Who held it next?

Offices held in turn. Open one for its line of holders.

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Family

Houses and dynasties

Ruling houses and their members.

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All houses in the directory

Copy of Bryaxis · Public domain

Every profile keeps them apart too.

A figure's family, teachers and offices are separate sections on their page, each with what it does not imply — and the connections between traditions are drawn with their own cautions.

See the connections How the kinds are kept apart