英语词汇pillow book的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pillow book. Little is known about the Japanese court lady Sei Shonagon (b. 965) except that she served as lady-in-waiting to Empress Sadako and wrote The Pillow Book (Makura no Soshi), which is the first example of the Japanese genre called zuihitsu (random notes), a huge collection of notes, lists, de- scriptions, sketches, and anecdotes. Its title is probably a generic term describing an informal book of notes people recorded their thoughts in before retiring and kept in the drawers of their wooden pillows.

词汇	pillow book
词源	pillow book. Little is known about the Japanese court lady Sei Shonagon (b. 965) except that she served as lady-in-waiting to Empress Sadako and wrote The Pillow Book (Makura no Soshi), which is the first example of the Japanese genre called zuihitsu (random notes), a huge collection of notes, lists, de- scriptions, sketches, and anecdotes. Its title is probably a generic term describing an informal book of notes people recorded their thoughts in before retiring and kept in the drawers of their wooden pillows.
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