The Pillow BookIn the tenth century, Japan was both physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. The Pillow Book recaptures this lost world with the diary of a young court lady. Sei Shonagon was a contemporary of Murasaki Shikibu, who wrote the well known novel The Tale of Genji. Unlike the latter's fictionalized view of the Heian era court, Shonagon's journal provides a lively miscellany of anecdotes, observations, and gossip, intended to be read

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