Sei Shonagon2019Dover Thrift Editions: Biography/Autobiography
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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 well-known novel The Tale of Genji. Unlike the la...
