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The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon; Arthur Waley (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
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 well-known novel The Tale of Genji. Unlike the latter's ...Show more
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
Category: Classics
A new translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the "Tale of Genji", this is one of the major Japanese classics.
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