Pillow Book by Sei Shonagan

After practice this brief section of The Pillow Book, I imagine that the things, events or situations she considers non good or proper argon those that differ from the unique heathenish value and concept of Miyabi. Miyabi is a refined courtly taste and a perfection of form and color. Many of the things, events and situations described directly differs from this concept and in ancient Japanese societies, this concept was very much valued and important.This is curiously targetn in the 5th example of undesirable things in which Sei Shonagon describes the sight of figure force in their cups who shout, poke fingers in their mouths, stroke their beards, and pass on the wine-colored to their neighbors with cries This example shows how Sei Shonagon has seen well-bred citizenry behaving like this and violating the concept of Miyabi which has caused it to be distasteful. In my opinion, the concept of Miyabi and the reasoning of her evaluation is based on social aspects as Miyabi was f ormed upon a concept of how to be arouse socially. . A Man who has cypher in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as though he knew eitherthing. I agree with this example because I have met a lot of these types of people end-to-end my life and I arise them absolutely annoying. They are perfect examples of what I believe to be tinkers dam of all trades and master of none. It especially annoys me when they talk approximately a subject in which I study or have done a lot of research on and they end up telling a lot of false facts which I cope to not be true. . ace is in the middle of a story when someone merelyts in and tries to show that he is the only clever psyche in the room. Such a person is odious, and so, indeed, is anyone, child or adult, who tries to push himself forward. This example really resonated with me because throughout attending a lot of networking events, I have realized that these people are despicable. When a person is i n the middle of saying something, I find it really rude to cut in and interrupt them.However, this seems to ever happen at networking events where all the students are trying to gain favoritism from the employer by interrupting and attempting to show that he is the cleverest person in the room. c. Ladies-in-waiting who want to exist everything that is going on. Once again, this example really pushes my buttons. I find this to be especially true in high school settings where everyone wants to know everything. It seems that every person, especially girls in high school need to know the free-and-easy chin-wagging and find it a personal objective to spread that gossip to as many people as they possibly can.I really do not like these types of people, especially when it is none of their business or when you do not even know them. d. A newcomer pushes ahead of the opposite members in a group with a knowing look, this person starts laying down the law and forcing advice upon everythi ng most hateful. This occurs in group settings and especially in team projects. One person will always assume that they are the smartest and try to tackle a management role to delegate work to everybody. However, I think that the reason youre working in a group is to see the opinions of others and also to see how others think.When one person tries to take over and stops everyone from giving opinions, this destroys the main point of working in a group. From meter reading this list, I think that she would consider anything that conforms to the concept of Miyabi would be good or praise worthy. In a western civilization, she would plausibly consider gentlemen behavior to be good or praiseworthy. Sei Shonagon sets herself up as an arbiter of good taste and most of hateful things are pronouncements of what she considers bewitching or inelegant behavior in staminate courtiers.Therefore, I believe that a man who acts as a gentleman will assemble praise from her. There is definitely a mold in Shonagons evaluation of people. Firstly, it is discernable that she does not really like rare people. This is evident in her 4th example of how she talks about an elderly person warms the palms of his hands over a brazier and stretches out the wrinkles. No teen man would dream of behaving in such a fashion old people can really be kinda shameless. This shows that she is quite straightforward and almost arrogant in writing about her invite of elders.In addition, there is a gender bias as she seems to evaluate her male courtiers and makes explicit pronouncements as to what she deems to be elegant and inelegant behavior. Through reading her list of hateful things, I realized that Shonagon thinks that a man has to do everything perfectly and in accordance with Miyabi. An example would be the 8th hateful thing A gentlemen has visited one secretly. Though he is wearing a tall, lacquered hat, he nevertheless wants no one to see him. He is so flurried, in fact, that on leavin g, he bangs into something with his hat.Most hateful To me, it seems that the male courtier was just uneasy and made a mistake of banging his hat on something but to Shonagon, it seems that this is the most inelegant behavior a male courtier could do. She wrote about how hateful it was and therefore, I think that there is definitely a gender bias in her evaluation of people. The only time she actually talks about hateful things that women does is in her example of ladies in waiting who want to know everything that is going on. Her list of hateful things is mostly comprised of the male courtiers.