Pillow Seeds

Pillow Seeds

by (japanese) Qingshaonagon

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142Kwords17chapters
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Ch. 17Postscript
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"Pillow" is a collection of essays written by Seishonagon, a female writer during the Heian period in Japan, and has been handed down for thousands of years. "Pillow" and "The Tale of Genji" are both regarded as the two masterpieces of Japanese classical literature; together with "The Book of the Hojo" and "The Tale of Turancao", they are also regarded as Japan's three major essays. The content of "Pillow" can be roughly divided into three categories: first, clustering. List things such as "pleasant", "rare", "unfortunate", "elegant", "cute", "visible" and other things, following the same category, but expanded, and including mountains, rivers, vegetation, some beautiful and some ugly, quite subtle; the second is a diary. After the death of Queen Dingzi, during the years when Qing Shao Nayan left the palace, he recalled the old events in the palace and was deeply moved, so he wrote them down. The third is his reflections. Plants, trees, insects and fish, the changing seasons, old people and acquaintances, and the things seen in the palace all arouse Qing Shao Nayan's emotions and emotions.

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