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The Pillow Book

Makura no soshi

textual humanities text book core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Sei Shonagon, author

Canon Rationale

A central Heian prose work, included for court aesthetics, list form, diary-prose boundaries, gendered authorship, and the development of Japanese literary style.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 101.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Pillow Book'.
  • museum record: Project Gutenberg, 'The pillow-book of Sei Shonagon', translated by Arthur Waley.

Audit Flags

translation dependency, version dependency

Completion unit: read a substantial scholarly selection or complete translation of The Pillow Book. Record the edition, translator, and selection scope.

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