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Sei Shōnagon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Pillow Book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sei Shonagon's family was literarily but not politically influential. Except for her period at the Japanese court, we know nothing about her life. She may have been married before she became a court attendant; she may have had a son.
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Essay on Sei Shonagon and her The Pillow Book ... Sei Shonagon, like Murasaki Shikibu, was a lady-in-waiting to an empress at this time, too, but to the older, retired Empress Sadako, who evidently conducted a more relaxed court, and, since Sei Shonagon has the reputation of being the most natural wit in the history of...
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Its author, Sei Shonagon, probably wrote this in 1000, the same year a scribe in England scratched runes into a manuscript of Beowulf. Shonagon imbued these opening lines with mono no awaré: beauty is precious because it is brief.
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Amazon.com: The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (9780231073370): Ivan
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Amazon.com: The Pillow Book (Penguin Classics) (9780140448061): Sei
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A thousand years ago, a Japanese lady-in-waiting kept a journal. Incredibly, it's still with us. ... Sei Shonagon lists, among other things, a dog howling in the daytime, an ox driver who hates his oxen, persistent rain on the last day of the year, and a scholar whose wife has one girl child after another.
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