Sei Shōnagon was apparently raised in a literary family, and evidence in her work points to an education in Japanese and Chinese literature. Her great-grandfather, Fukuyabu, was also a celebrated poet. Her father, mentioned only once in her work, was Kiyohara no Motosuke, provincial governor of Higo, a poet whose work appears in several imperial anthologies, a scholar, and one of the compilers of Gosen wakashū (951 later collection of poetry). 673-686) and a family of some distinction, although by Shōnagon’s lifetime, its influence was primarily literary. Sei Shōnagon was born into the Kiyohara family, descendants of the Emperor Temmu (r. 1001 Pillow Book, 1929 best known as The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon, 1967, or The Pillow Book) and in comments by contemporaries, especially her literary rival, Murasaki Shikibu. Hints are embedded in her work Makura no sōshi (c. No direct biographical or historical records about Sei Shōnagon have survived information is fragmentary or conjectural about her life before and after her service at the imperial court, and about possible relationships, marriages, or children.
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