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The Pillow Book was written in a language and for a world in many ways unimaginably foreign to us — if your readers choose to travel to that world, let them taste the foreignness of it and its language. Refuse the urge to domesticate and tame this wonderful wild text that resists the translator’s hand so defiantly….
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle impressions. Lady Shonagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of ...
Sei Shonagun (966-1025 CE) was a writer and poet whose work gives insight into the Japanese court during the Heian period (794-1185 CE). She also served as a lady-in-waiting to first empress Teishi (977-1000 CE), whose father Fujiwara Michitaka was regent for the young emperor Ichijō. Shonagun’s father, who was also a poet, served the ...
6 de jun. de 1997 · The Pillow Book: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With Vivian Wu, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata, Hideko Yoshida. A woman with a body-writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
Em Kiotto, no Japão dos anos 70, a jovem Nagiko (Vivian Wu) comemora o seu aniversário com um estranho ritual. Seu pai escreve em seu rosto uma benção enquanto sua tia lê um livro de cabeceira escrito por Sei Shonagon, há quase mil anos. Nagiko cresce entre livros, papéis e escritas em corpos nus e essa sua odisseia sexual, se repete ...
When Shonagon writes, at the end of The Pillow Book, that “all moonlight is moving, wherever it may be,” she distills a major theme of her text (254).Whenever considering fabrics, scenes in nature, or scenes from her own life, Shonagon deliberately notes the quality of light (directly connected to the time of day) in order to convey a clear image of the special effect light can have on a ...
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 fictionalized view of the Heian-era court, Shōnagon's journal provides a lively miscellany of anecdotes, observations, and gossip, intended to be read in juicy bits and pieces.
