Notes at the head of the bed

Sad and funny household scenes of court life. Velicomity jokes (sometimes very poisonous) Pictures of nature. Philosophical thoughts. Transparent, crystal language. The acute and sarcastic mind of the narrator. Extraordinary observation ...
“Notes at the head of the head”, recognized as an author’s life as an unconditional masterpiece and became a kind of “bestseller” (of course, in a very narrow court circle, but there was no other in Japan Hayan - it was not total illiterate illiterate Only the people, but also the nascent Samurai nobility), laid the foundation for the unique literary genre “Dzuhitsa”, more or less successfully translated as “essays”, but exactly the essay is not. The scope of record about everything and nothing. “Pure art” in a directly distilled form, “beauty for the sake of beauty”, not trying to escape behind the ups and downs of the plot and appreciating for what, in fact, is the absolute perfection of the style, which the prose of Sei-Synagon stands out even against the background of the richest Pleiades of talented stylists of medieval Japanese literature