The Pillow Book is a collection of notes, lists, anecdotes and reflections written around the year 1000 by Sei Shōnagon, a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Sadako at the Heian court in Kyoto. Together with Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji, it is one of the two great prose works of Japan's classical age.
Sei Shōnagon · CatalogSei ShōnagonSei Shōnagon · CatalogSei Shōnagon (c. 966-after 1017) was a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Sadako at the Heian court of Japan.The Pillow-Book of Sei Shōnagon
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Short biography: Sei Shōnagon in Great Lives