In chapter 63 on Embarrassing Things, the author includes having spoken about someone without noticing that he's within earshot, "even if it be a servant or some other completely insignificant person"; under annoying things in chapter 62, thinking of something to add to a letter after having already sent it; and under depressing things in chapter 13, a scholar whose wife has one girl child after another.
In chapter 63 on Embarrassing Things, the author includes having spoken about someone without noticing that he's within earshot, "even if it be a servant or some other completely insignificant person"; under annoying things in chapter 62, thinking of something to add to a letter after having already sent it; and under depressing things in chapter 13, a scholar whose wife has one girl child after another. These lists, which also include Things that Give an Unclean Feeling and People Who Seem to Suffer,are interspersed with sections detailing goings-on in the Empress' court. FTP what is this book of the Heian period, written in the last decade of the tenth century by Sei Shonagon?
In chapter 63 on Embarrassing Things, the author includes having spoken about someone without noticing that he's within earshot, "even if it be a servant or some other completely insignificant person"; under annoying things in chapter 62, thinking of something to add to a letter after having already sent it; and under depressing things in chapter 13, a scholar whose wife has one girl child after another.
The Pillow-Book or Makura no Soshi