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Sei Shōnagon (966–1025) was a Japanese lady-in-waiting, poet, essayist, and diarist. Born in Heian-kyō, she served as an employee of Fujiwara no Teishi. Her work period began in 1000, and she wrote in Japanese. She is the author of *The Pillow Book* and is included in the Thirty Six Elder Poetic Sages and the Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets.
Her father was Kiyohara no Motosuke, and she was named after the Kiyohara clan. She practiced Buddhism and died in Kyoto. Open Library records list 34 works associated with her name, including *The Pillow Book* and various modern translations.
Synthesized by Vinony from 33 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- ca. 967
- Works
- 34
Top works
- 枕草子全釋
- 現代語訳枕草子
- Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces
- 堺本枕冊子
- 校訂三卷本枕草子
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 3
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,254x
- The polypeptide encoded by the cDNA for human cell surface antigen Fas can mediate apoptosis
· 1991 · cited 2,034x
- Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci
· 2007 · cited 1,783x
- Albiglutide and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (Harmony Outcomes): a double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial
· 2018 · cited 1,591x
- Chemoresistance Evolution in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Delineated by Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2018 · cited 1,006x
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Quotes
- “A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as though he knew everything. (p. 44)”
- “One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate — disgusting behavior! (p. 46)”
- “Splendid ThingsChinese brocade. A sword with a decorated scabbard. The grain of the wood in a Buddhist statue. Long flowering branches of beautifully coloured wistaria entwined about a pine tree. (p. 109)”
- “Things That Lose by Being PaintedPinks, cherry blossoms, yellow roses. Men or women who are praised in romances as being beautiful.Things That Gain by Being PaintedPines. Autumn fields. Mountain villages and paths. Cranes and deer. A very cold winter scene; an unspeakably hot summer scene. (p. 138)”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Named after
- Shōnagon
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Heian-kyō
- Place of death
- Kyoto
- Father
- Kiyohara no Motosuke
- Occupation
- historian
- Employer
- Fujiwara no Teishi
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Native language
- Japanese
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Field of work
- essay
- Image
- Sei Shonagon2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Sei Shōnagon
- date of birth
- 0966-00-00
- date of death
- 1025-00-00
- name in native language
- 清少納言
- writing language
- Japanese
- start of work period
- 1000-00-00
- name in kana
- せい しょうなごん
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Sei Shōnagon (清少納言; [sei ɕoː.naꜜ.ɡoɴ, seː-, -ŋoɴ], c. 966–1017 or 1025), or Seijo (清女; [seꜜi.(d)ʑo, seꜜː-], lit. 'Lady Sei'), was a Japanese author, poet, and court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000, during the middle Heian period. She is the author of The Pillow Book (枕草子, makura no sōshi).
Name
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