1. The Pillow Book details daily life at court in 10th century Japan (Heian period) through a series of fragments for which no one knows the intended ordering (if indeed there is one).
2. All Pillow Book quotations taken from the Penguin Classics Edition translated by Ivan Morris.
3. Ibid. pg 22
4. Rimbaud, Venus Anadyomene, Everyman's Library, translated by Paul Schmidt
5. Pillow Book pg 205
6. Ibid. pg 44
7. Ibid. pg 46
8. Ibid. pg 85
9. Ibid. pg 200
10. Proust, In Search of Lost Time, vol II. trans. by Moncrieff and Kilmartin. The Modern Library, pg 317
11. The Lotus Sutra, trans. By Burton Watson, Columbia Univ. Press, pg 251
12. Ibid. pg 253

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