# The pillow-book of Sei Shōnagon

Author: Sei Shōnagon, 967?-1025?; Waley, Arthur, 1889-1966 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76016

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+pillow-book+of+Sei+Sh%C5%8Dnagon+Sei+Sh%C5%8Dnagon&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

1. I have here translated about a quarter of the _Pillow-Book_.[1] Omissions have been made only where the original was dull, unintelligible, repetitive, or so packed with allusion that it required an impracticable amount of commentary.

## Chapters

- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pillow-book-of-sei-shonagon-76016/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pillow-book-of-sei-shonagon-76016/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pillow-book-of-sei-shonagon-76016/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pillow-book-of-sei-shonagon-76016/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pillow-book-of-sei-shonagon-76016/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pillow-book-of-sei-shonagon-76016/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pillow-book-of-sei-shonagon-76016/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pillow-book-of-sei-shonagon-76016/chapters/8/index.md)