"The Pillow Book" in 3 minutes

Sei Shonagon was an attendant to the Empress Teishi in the Heian (Imperial) Court in Kyoto in at the turn of the last millennium. She is famous for her memoir The Pillow Book that chronicles her life in short essays, impressions, and humor without the artifice of a plot.

In this short course, click through a few pages and review a little about why this work is so influential, striking, and even funny so many years later.