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About This Novel

This book narrates what the author Seishonagon saw and heard in the palace. It is full of the subtle beauty of the changing seasons that the author personally feels, as well as the mottled customs and world of the Heian period, the complex world of human relationships and the momentary beauty of the trivial things in daily life. This book has a total of 305 paragraphs, divided into three major contents: clustering, diary, and random thoughts. Clustering is a list of things of different natures and categories in life, involving geographical features, vegetation, flowers and birds, inner emotions, life interests, etc., Which very richly reflects the author's delicate observation and aesthetic taste; the diary records the author's life in the palace, and there are reflections in it. Her experience of a deep relationship with Empress Fujiwara Tadako and the fragments of her life in the palace, from which we can understand the living conditions and tastes of the royal family and nobles in Japan's Heian period. Random thoughts are random reflections on nature and life, which show the author's bright and free attitude towards life. The author was born in a middle-class aristocracy. Although this work reflects the inequality between social classes and worries about the times, it focuses on praising the queen's stature and affirming Japan's aristocratic society. Before "Pillow", monogatari literature and diary literature had appeared in Japan. "Pillow" opened up a new field and laid the foundation for Japanese prose.

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