This is not how it happened, but actually it is. I tossed and turned, unable to sleep. I got up and went into the other room, so not to disturb my wife and dog, both of them sleeping soundly. I turned ...

"Finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment." "To wash your hair, apply ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woodblock print of Sei Shōnagon – Chōbunsai Eishi (1801). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Over a thousand years ago, a ...

Exploring the Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon, the world’s first portrayal of individual self. What is it to write? What roles do ceremony, beauty, and material play in the act of writing? Not only is the ...

Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return for a new series of the popular mystery set in 10th century Japan. Written by Robert Forrest. Shonagon and Yukinari find themselves finally alone in a ...

As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with ...

The present, the past, the imagined, and the parallel—but never the future—is the somewhat cryptic setting for Anna Moench's "The Pillow Book." Directed by David F. Chapman, the production jumps all ...