far more extensive annotation and introductory material than are provided here. Most of the lacunae are filled by my study of Court life in ancient Japan entitled The World of the Shining Prince (Penguin Books, 1969), which contains general background information about Sei Shōnagon’s society. The five appendices to the present edition give details about certain subjects that are particularly useful for understanding her book: (1) The Calendar; (2) The Government; (3) Places; (4) Clothes, Houses, etc.; (5) Chronology.
In addition to the scholars already mentioned, I should like to thank my friends in England, America, Japan, and Norway for all their help and encouragement during the five years spent with The Pillow Book. I am also most grateful to Professor Hans Bielenstein and to Fang Chao-ying for checking the Chinese quotations and references, to Dr Hakeda Yoshito for his advice on Sanskrit terms, and to Mrs Shirley Bridgwater and Mrs Karen Brazell for proof-reading a most complicated manuscript. Finally I am indebted to Professor Edwin Cranston for the many valuable suggestions and corrections contained in his review article on my Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon published by the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. xxix, 1969.
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