The pillow book by sei shōnagon6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Someone “brings her a note on light green paper, very prettily got up”(39)Ī note from the Captain“written on thin paper stamped with the white-flower pattern”(48) Disagreeable Quotes From Arthur Waley, As Editor: ![]() ![]() Her Empress passes “a picture or a book to look at” (34) Red-tile endpapers’ pattern of faint white dotsĪ few shiny pages with golden clouds, dark green tatami, and pines Things that are FittingĪ 2011 edition of The Pillow Book pleasant to sight and touchĪ book whose origin is a “bundle of paper” given by an Empress to a Court LadyĪ celebration of paper after 1,000 years Sei Shōnagan’s references to Paper (translated by Waley) The apricot curving lips of the dust jacket woman ISBN: 978-4805311080, HARDCOVER Reviewed by Fay Beauchamp Pleasant Things
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