Download or read book The Pillow Book of Sei Sh?nagon written by Sei Shōnagon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great classics of Japanese literature, "The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon" is by far our most detailed source of factual material on life in eleventh-century Japan at the height of Heian culture.