Her Pillow Book, which covers that period, consists in part of vividly recounted memoirs of her impressions and observations and in part of categories such as “Annoying Things” and “Things Which Distract in Moments of Boredom,” within which she listed and classified the people, events, and objects around her. Little is known about her life outside of her time at court. Sei Shōnagon was the daughter of the poet Kiyohara Motosuke and was in the service of the empress Teishi (Sadako) at the capital of Heian-kyō ( Kyōto) from about 993 to 1000.
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