Sei Shōnagon (清少納言, c. 966–1017 or 1025) was a Japanese author, poet, and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000 during...

Makura no Sōshi) is a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shōnagon during her time as court lady to Empress Consort Teishi during the 990s...

appears in the literary classic The Pillow Book written by her court lady Sei Shōnagon. She was the first daughter of Fujiwara no Michitaka (藤原道隆). She was...

also known as Infuriating Things, is a section of The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon, a Japanese author and courtier of the Middle Heian period around 1000...

thinks that Murasaki's impression of Shōnagon could have been influenced by Shōshi and the women at her court, as Shōnagon served Shōshi's rival empress. Furthermore...

Kagerō Nikki by "the mother of Fujiwara Michitsuna", The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon and The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. Indigenous art also flourished...

title. The Fujiwara clan is featured prominently in The Pillow Book, by Sei Shōnagon, and the character of Genji is partially based on Michinaga in the eponymous...

Pillow Book (Makura no Sōshi, 990s). The Pillow Book was written by Sei Shōnagon, Murasaki Shikibu's contemporary and rival, as an essay about the life...

compilation Enshūsenkuzuke by Waki Enshū from 1680, and was used to refer to Sei Shōnagon, a female poet. Iga FC Kunoichi, a women's football club which is based...

name of a pet cat belonging to Empress Consort Sadako, whom the author Sei Shōnagon served. The term myōbu is also used to describe the fox messengers of...

Japanese narrative. An account of court life is given in The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon, while The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu is often described as the...

is referred to in The Pillow Book, a book of observations written by Sei Shōnagon, who served the Imperial Court during the Heian period. The earliest...

celebrated by numerous waka poets since the anthology Kokin wakashū (920). Sei Shōnagon in her essay The Pillow Book (1002) mentions a trip she and other courtiers...

ladies-in-waiting and other court writers, such as Izumi Shikibu, Akazome Emon and Sei Shōnagon. Murasaki includes her observations and opinions throughout, bringing...

general. Middle of the Heian period (794–1185/1192): In The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon, there is the statement "there are tenacious mononoke", as well as a...

On as Joanne, in November 2010. In November 2011, Gemmell played Lady Shonagon in the adaptation for BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour of The Pillow Book, by Robert...

Akazome Emon (赤染衛門) Koshikibu no Naishi (小式部内侍) Ise no Taifu (伊勢大輔) Sei Shōnagon (清少納言) Master of the Left Capital Michimasa (左京大夫道雅) Acting Middle Counselor...

the Japanese author Sei Shōnagon's life alongside Empress Teishi. The story takes place in the Heian era, following Sei Shonagon, a reclusive writer living...

genre. Notable examples include The Pillow Book (c. 1000), by court lady Sei Shōnagon, and Tsurezuregusa (1330), by particularly renowned Japanese Buddhist...

she wrote three waka to express her sorrow and love to her servant, Sei Shōnagon, and the emperor. Teishi said that she would be entombed, rather than...

title, "The Pillow Book", refers to an ancient Japanese diary written by Sei Shōnagon, whose actual name is believed to have been Kiyohara Nagiko, from whence...

gramineus". Archived from the original on 2007-11-13. Retrieved 2007-11-28. Sei Shōnagon (2006). McKinney, Meredith (ed.). The pillow book. London, England: Penguin...

is referred to in The Pillow Book, a book of observations written by Sei Shōnagon, who served the Imperial Court during the Heian period. Kakigōri became...

Yano) as Zhu Rencong Kouhei Matsushita as Zhou Ming First Summer Uika as Sei Shōnagon. In the series, she is called Kikyō. Hiroshi Ōmori as Kiyohara no Motosuke...

works such as The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon, and many anthologies of waka poems. The term "Dairi" refers not only...

Berserker (バーサーカー, Bāsākā) – Sei Shōnagon (清少納言) Voiced by: Ai Fairouz Appearing in Heian-kyō as a side character, Sei Shōnagon is a master who lived on that...

references include Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sei Shōnagon, Catherine Millet, Chögyam Trungpa, Isabelle Eberhardt, John Berger,...

Japanese writer Sei Shōnagon. To the west of Sei is Alencar crater. To the northeast is Ma Chih-Yuan crater. Oblique view, looking south "Sei". Gazetteer of...

literary parody of The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon. The title has also been translated as The Mongrel Pillow. Sei Shōnagon's observations of the Heian court...

hair was also ideal. In essays written in 1002 called The Pillow Book, Sei Shōnagon, a court lady stated that she envied "beautiful, very long hair". As...