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The Pillow Book

Sei Shōnagon

Form
Form Zuihitsu
Year
Year 1002
Originally in
Originally in Japanese
Pages
Pages 300

A court lady in Heian Japan fills a notebook with lists, gossip and things that delight or annoy her, and a thousand years later it reads like she is across the table.

In spring it is the dawn that is most beautiful. In summer the nights.
The Pillow Book, Sei Shōnagon

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