Sei Shōnagon

c. 966–c. 1025

Japanese court lady who wrote The Pillow Book.

Known as

Writer

Category

Writers

Born

c. 966, Heian-kyō

Died

c. 1025, Kyoto

Alive at the same time as Sei Shōnagon

• Ferdowsi 940–c. 1020, poet
• Basil II 958–1025, emperor
• Fan Kuan c. 960–c. 1030, painter
• Ibn al-Haytham c. 965–c. 1040, physicist
• Bi Sheng c. 970–c. 1051, inventor
• Leif Erikson c. 970–c. 1020, explorer
• Mahmud of Ghazni 971–1030, sultan
• Rajendra I c. 971–1044, emperor
• Murasaki Shikibu c. 973–c. 1014, novelist
• Al-Biruni 973–c. 1050, scholar
• Mahmud al-Kashgari c. 1005–c. 1102, scholar
• Yusuf Balasaghuni c. 1019–c. 1085, poet

Portrait: 土佐光起 (Tosa Mitsuoki), Public domain.