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The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon

The Pillow Book

Sei Shōnagon with Arthur Waley (Translator)

80 pages paperback 1002

13 editions

nonfiction classics history informative lighthearted reflective slow-paced
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In 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 Shōnagon was a contemporary of Murasaki Shikibu, who wrote the...

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