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About This Novel

"Pillow" is a collection of essays by Japanese female writer Seishonagon during the Heian period. It was completed in the early 11th century. The author Seishonagon was a famous talented woman during the Heian period. This book mainly records the author's observations and random thoughts on daily life when he lived in the palace. The text is fresh and bright, the forms are varied, and the life scenes are warm and interesting. His writing style had a huge impact on the subsequent development of Japanese prose literature. In fact, before the completion of "Pillow", monogatari literature and diary literature had already appeared in Japan. "Pillow" by Seishonagon opened up a new field, and her essays laid the foundation for Japanese prose literature. It is known as Japan's three major essays together with "The Hojo Chronicles" by Kamo Nagaaki and "Uranso" by Kaneyoshi Yoshida that appeared later. This book is a collection of essays from Japan's fresh period. The work begins with "Spring is the best time at dawn" and is well-proportioned, with a total of more than 300 paragraphs. The full text is roughly divided into three configurations of paragraphs: one is a cluster configuration paragraph, the second is a short article configuration paragraph, and the third is a log recall configuration paragraph.

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