SEI Shōnagon
Court name: Sei Shōnagon (清少納言).
Possible maiden name: Kiyohara no Nagiko (清原 諾子).
Born about 966.
Died about 1025.
Wikipedia: English,
French,
Japanese.
WORKS
The Pillow Book.
(枕草子 | Makura no sōshi).
Japanese: 1911;
1931.
English: The Pillow Book (Arthur Waley, 1928; selection; see also
1957 and
1960);
• The Sketch Book (Nobuko Kobayashi, 1930; selection);
• The Pillow Book (Ivan Morris, 1967, ed. 1984; see also
1980 and
1991);
• The Pillow Book (Meredith McKinney, 2006).
French: Les notes de l’oreiller (Kuni Matsuo and Émile Steinilber-Oberlin, 1928; selection);
• Notes de chevet (André Beaujard, 1934).
Created on 3 June 2023.
