And it’s delightful too to see just one or two fly through the darkness, glowing softly.

“In spring, the dawn-when the slowly paling mountain rim is tinged with red, and wisps of faintly crimson-purple cloud float in the sky.” “In summer, the night-moonlit nights, of course, but also at the dark of the moon, it’s beautiful when the fireflies are dancing everywhere in a mazy flight. all the more remarkable seeing that from the fourteenth to the end of the nineteenth century not a single woman writer of any note made her appearance in Japan.”(127) Traditionally the first lines of Sei Shōnagon’s Pillow Book (from the Penguin edition, translator Meredith McKinney) “women, though quick at acquiring spoken languages, have seldom shown much aptitude for the study of difficult scripts”(126) “the effeminate and decadent society of Heian” “the old attitude towards religion, half childish, half cynical”(30) “the real religion of the Heian was the cult of calligraphy”(27) sharply distinguishes us from the ancient Japanese.” “ Intellectual passivity”. Someone “brings her a note on light green paper, very prettily got up”(39)Ī note from the Captain“written on thin paper stamped with the white-flower pattern”(48) Disagreeable Quotes From Arthur Waley, As Editor: Her Empress passes “a picture or a book to look at” (34) Red-tile endpapers’ pattern of faint white dotsĪ few shiny pages with golden clouds, dark green tatami, and pines Things that are FittingĪ 2011 edition of The Pillow Book pleasant to sight and touchĪ book whose origin is a “bundle of paper” given by an Empress to a Court LadyĪ celebration of paper after 1,000 years Sei Shōnagan’s references to Paper (translated by Waley) The apricot curving lips of the dust jacket woman

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