“It was a clear, moonlit night a little after the tenth of the Eighth Month. Her Majesty, who was residing in the Empress's Office, sat by the edge of the veranda while Ukon no Naishi played the flute for her.… — Sei Shônagon Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked. It always seems to me that people who… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
“ 134. Letters are Commonplace Letters are commonplace enough, yet what splendid things they are! When someone is in a distant province and one… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
“If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from.” — Sei Shōnagon Copy Share Image
“71. Rare Things -- A son-in-law who's praised by his wife's father. Likewise, a wife who's loved by her mother-in-law. A pair of silver… — Sei Shōnagon Copy Share Image
“Equally disagreeable is the man who, when leaving in the middle of the night, takes care to fasten the cord of his headdress. This… — Sei Shōnagon Copy Share Image
A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything. — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
“ In spring it is the dawn that is most beautiful. As the light creeps over the hills, their outlines are dyed a faint… — Sei Shônagon Copy Share Image
“ 64. Surprising and Distressing Things While one is cleaning a decorative comb, something catches in the teeth and the comb breaks. A carriage… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time. — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked. — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
