A review by alleykat23
The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon

3.0

Rated down from what probably would be a 4.5 because of this god awful translation by Arthur Waley. The dude starts out saying he has cut out three fourths of the original text because it wasn't interesting enough and then spends pages and pages instead of translating what I want to read taking a "West is Best" diatribe including how Heian Japanese didn't have a concept of sin because of their lack of Christian ethic. Maybe one day I'll get my hands on a better translation but this one, though interesting in its own way, was very frustrating.