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In the list "Splendid Things" from Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book, the author delights in grape-colored fabric, wisteria vines around a tree, and a snow-covered garden. So shrewd an observer is Shonagon, a lady-in-waiting to Empress Teishi, that her book's musings on tenth-century Japanese courtly life readers a thousand years later.