The Pillow Book (literature)/YMMV

These things about  are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.


 * Growing the Beard: For the Japanese language, as at the time the book was published the public (read: by males) writing was majorly in Chinese, while only women wrote in Japanese,.Sei Shonagon's witty, elegant observations in hiragana characters generated an interest in both womens's literatur and the possibilities of the Japanese language.