Compiled by JOHN CARR-GREGG from the translation by ARTHUR WALEY
Helen Worth as Sei Shonagon
' Readers have declared that I can be proud of my work; this surprises me, and yet I suppose it is not so strange that people should value something I do not admire, for, as will be gathered from these notes of mine, I am the sort of person who approves of what others abhor and detests the things they find admirable.'
Written 1,000 years ago. the Pillow Book is a product of the golden age of Japanese writing.
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS followed by an interlude