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    The Pillow Book (枕草子, Makura no Sōshi) is a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shōnagon during her time as court lady to Empress Consort...
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  • The Pillow Book is a 1996 erotic drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, which stars Vivian Wu as Nagiko, a Japanese model in search of pleasure...
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  • The Pillow Book (三生三世枕上书), written by Tang Qi Gong Zi, is the second book in the Three Lives, Three Worlds series. This Chinese novel consists of two books...
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  • Shēng Sānshì Zhěn Shàngshū), also known as Three Lives Three Worlds, The Pillow Book, directed by Yang Hsuan,[citation needed] is a 2020 Chinese streaming...
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    of pillows include throw pillows, body pillows, decorative pillows, and many more. Pillows that aid sleeping are a form of bedding that supports the head...
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    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...
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    Ruth Gemmell (category Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art)
    played Lady Shonagon in the adaptation for BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour of The Pillow Book, by Robert Forrest. She appeared as Jen, the wife of an adulterous...
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    Vivian Wu (category Naturalized citizens of the United States)
    Ninja Turtles III (1993), The Joy Luck Club (1993), and most notably playing the leading roles in The Pillow Book (1996) and The Soong Sisters (1997). In...
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    thoughts and quotations. The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, a courtier of the tenth or eleventh-century Japan is likewise a private book of anecdote and poetry...
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    attendant in the Empress' court were recorded collectively as The Pillow Book in the 990s, which revealed the quotidian capital lifestyle. The Heian period...
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    Lucasfilm Exec Confirms Obi-Wan Kenobi Is a Limited Series on Disney+". ComicBook.com. Retrieved 22 August 2020. "Future Lucasfilm Projects Revealed". StarWars...
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    served with sweet syrup to the Japanese aristocracy during the summer. Kakigōri's origin is referred to in The Pillow Book, a book of observations written...
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  • A pillow is a cushion for the head. Pillow may also refer to: Pillow, Pennsylvania, United States, a borough Pillow Knob, Queen Elizabeth Land, Antarctica...
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  • Barbara Lott (category Actors from the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames)
    Ewan McGregor’s mother in The Pillow Book. She died on 19 December 2002 in London, aged 82. Let's Be Famous (1939) – Sophie the telephonist (uncredited)...
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    of the great literary classics of the Heian period, The Tale of Genji and The Pillow Book. The passage from The Tale of Genji, near the end of the sixth...
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  • or The Dog Pillow (犬枕) is an early-Edo period Japanese literary parody of The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon. The title has also been translated as The Mongrel...
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  • Makurakotoba (redirect from Pillow word)
     'pillow words') are figures of speech used in Japanese waka poetry in association with certain words. The set phrase can be thought of as a "pillow" for...
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  • Helmet for My Pillow is the personal narrative written by World War II United States Marine Corps veteran, author, and military historian Robert Leckie...
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    "BBC – Drama on 3 – The Possessed". BBC. 7 May 2006. Retrieved 16 September 2014. "BBC Radio 4 – 15 Minute Drama, The Pillow Book, Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved...
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  • This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn is a young adult novel by Aidan Chambers, published in 2005. It is the last work in the "Dance sequence"...
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    aristocracy during the summer. Kakigōri's origin is referred to in The Pillow Book, a book of observations written by Sei Shōnagon, who served the Imperial Court...
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    section of The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon, a Japanese author and courtier of the Middle Heian period around 1000 AD. Hateful Things was written in the form...
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    known as the My Pillow Guy, is an American businessman, political activist, and conspiracy theorist. He is the founder and CEO of My Pillow, a pillow, bedding...
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  • the illness. Statements on this practice can be found in detail in works like The Pillow Book and The Diary of Lady Murasaki. Also, according to the Shoku...
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    access from the busy cities in the Kansai metropolitan area including Osaka. Arima Onsen was named in the Heian-period The Pillow Book as one of the three famous...
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    Fujiwara clan (redirect from The Fujiwara)
    prominently in The Pillow Book, by Sei Shōnagon, and the character of Genji is partially based on Michinaga in the eponymous Tale of Genji. The Fujiwara Regency...
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    Japanese literature and one of the three representative works of the zuihitsu genre, along with The Pillow Book and the Hōjōki. Essays in Idleness comprises...
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    to Shōnagon's popular Pillow Book. Murasaki contrasted herself to Shōnagon in a variety of ways. She denigrated the pillow book genre and, unlike Shōnagon...
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  • Laura Rees (category Alumni of the Academy Drama School)
    adaptations of Josephine Tey's The Franchise Affair (2005), Sei Shōnagon's The Pillow Book (2008 and 2010), Paul Gallico's The Lonely (2010), Euripides' Helen...
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    The Pillow Book (Makura no Sōshi, 990s). The Pillow Book was written by Sei Shōnagon, Murasaki Shikibu's contemporary and rival, as an essay about the life...
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