10 points, name this disorganized zuihitsu collecting Heian court anecdotes by Sei Shōnagan.
This work's narrator explains a toponym with the story of a captain who put a stop to a death penalty for people over forty by threading an ant through a jewel to prevent an invasion. After her arsonist great- granddaughter Raka arrives at Carignano, Nanda Kaul reflects on this work's claim that women who live alone should have dilapidated houses in Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain. This work inspires Jane Takagi-Little to make documentaries like My American Wife! in My Year of Meats, which quotes sections like its attack on carpenters' (*) eating habits to preface chapters with titles like "The Gods-Absent Month." Idiosyncratic lists such as "things without merit" and "unsuitable things" punctuate this work, whose narrator dominates poetry contests against other ladies-in-waiting and lovers like Tadanobu, to win favor with the Empress. 10 points, name this disorganized zuihitsu collecting Heian court anecdotes by Sei Shōnagan.
This work's narrator explains a toponym with the story of a captain who put a stop to a death penalty for people over forty by threading an ant through a jewel to prevent an invasion.
The Pillow Book [or Makura no Sōshi]