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Category: Japan – late 10th, early 11th century – Shonagon, The Pillow Book

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England, 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice / English Romantics / Japan - late 10th, early 11th century - Shonagon, The Pillow Book / Medieval Art, History, and Literature

Witty Observation – Sei Shonagon and Jane Austen

I kept thinking about Jane Austen as I read “the Pillow Book” by Sei Shonagon, and I wondered at the cause. Shonagon was a Japanese writer who wrote in the early 11th century, and...