These poems were written by Sei Shonagon, a lady-in waiting at the Japanese Heian DynastyImperial Court at the very end of the 10th century and they were the core of director's Peter Greeenaway film "The Pillow Book". These poems sadly are not translated in the film and this is your only chance to discover them.

Click on the images and follow poetically her life-story through several types of lovers she met during her life with the visual help of Peter Greenaway. Discover the similarities, the beautiness and the details of these poems, to the lovers we all met 1000 years after.

The order I placed them, even though not similar to the movie, is not unintentional and describes a lover's sentimental condition gradually.