What is a Pillow Book?
I know what they are, but only because I used one as the reason a model was talking naughty pictures in my ebook, "The Painted Lady". Actually, I first read about them in a Johanna Lindsey romance, although I can't remember which one. I really need to reread her Malory backlist - I'm sure it's one of those randy guys - to find that book!
However, in the Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, a pillowbook is descibed as "A diary, or book of musings, kept under the pillow." The Pillowbook of Sei Shonagon, a lady-in-waiting to Japan's Empress Sadako, was a few lines written about the day before she fell asleep kind of book. Apparently it offers great insight into the era [965-1020] in which she lived.
There were lists included in her pillowbook such as "Squalid Things", "Vexing Things", "Hateful Things", but I laughed at the "Embarassing Things" where she added an oafish lover:
However, in the Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, a pillowbook is descibed as "A diary, or book of musings, kept under the pillow." The Pillowbook of Sei Shonagon, a lady-in-waiting to Japan's Empress Sadako, was a few lines written about the day before she fell asleep kind of book. Apparently it offers great insight into the era [965-1020] in which she lived.There were lists included in her pillowbook such as "Squalid Things", "Vexing Things", "Hateful Things", but I laughed at the "Embarassing Things" where she added an oafish lover:
"Lying awake at night, one says something to one's companion, who simply goes on sleeping."At least she doesn't complain about their snoring.
Tilly Greene
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