A Lady in Kyoto

Author: Shonagon, Sei

Diaries, letters & journals

Published on 17 April 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Archive' series.

Paperback | 128 pages
179 x 111 x 10 | 82g

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksAll moonlight is moving, wherever it may be…Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to look behind the painted screens in the Emperor’s palace and discover a lost world, in which games of poetry are the highest form of wit, lovers send each other elegant morning-after letters, and appreciation of the natural world – wild geese in autumn, the pure white frost of winter – is one of life’s most exquisite pleasures.