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The Pillow Book (Penguin Classics)
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| #107599 in Books | Sei Shonagon | 2007-10-30 | 2007-10-30 | Original language:Japanese | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x.90 x5.10l,.66 | File type: PDF | 416 pages | The Pillow Book||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| A journey of delightful discoveries|By Autumnbreeze 3000|How recent can a life lived 1000 years ago seem to be? Sei Shonagon (c. 966–1017) wrote down her thoughts and observations while she was a lady-in-waiting to empress Teishi. Today those notes read as if one of us had written them down (also thanks to Meredith McKinney's translation) except for the strangeness of|About the Author|Sei Shonagon was born approximately a thousand years ago (965 is a likely date) and served as lady-in-waiting at the Court of the Japanese Empress during the last decade of the tenth century. Her father was a provincial official, but is b
The classic portrayal of court life in tenth-century Japan
Written by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon, ostensibly for her own amusement, The Pillow Book offers a fascinating exploration of life among the nobility at the height of the Heian period, describing the exquisite pleasures of a confined world in which poetry, love, fashion, and whim dominated, while harsh reality was kept firmly at a distance. Moving elegantly across a wide range of the...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Pillow Book (Penguin Classics) | Sei Shonagon. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
