![]() ![]() ![]() Typically she asks herself questions, for instance: what is the nicest time of day? In the summer: it’s the night, especially if it’s raining in Spring she prefers the dawn in Autumn, sunset in winter, the morning. We don’t really know where the lovely title of the book came from perhaps she slept with it under her head, occasionally adding a thought or observation by the light of the moon. ![]() Despise the high-status of her job, her daily life was, externally, deeply uneventful: an afternoon’s carriage ride outside the walls of the court compound might be the highlight of a year a day trip to hear a sermon in a temple seems to have been the farthest extent of her travels she spent all most all of her time indoors, in just two or three rooms she saw the same few people month after month her work largely involved keeping respectfully silent, knowing when to bow and remembering the complex titles of various officials.Īnd yet The Pillow Book gives the impression that she had a wonderful time. ![]()
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