Pillow Book by Sei Shonagan

After reading this brief section of The Pillow Book, I fancyualize t put on the things, events or situations she witnesss not good or proper are those that disaccord from the unique cultural value and concept of Miyabi. Miyabi is a refined stately taste and a perfection of form and color. Many of the things, events and situations described akin a shot differs from this concept and in ancient Japanese societies, this concept was very practically valued and important.This is especially shown in the 5th pattern of detestable things in which Sei Shonagon describes the sight of men in their cups who sh break, poke fingers in their mouths, stroke their beards, and head teacher on the wine to their neighbors with cries This warning shows how Sei Shonagon has nabn well-bred people 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 Miya bi was formed upon a concept of how to be ready socially. . A Man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as though he knew everything. I agree with this example because I corroborate met a lot of these types of people throughout my t genius and I find them absolutely annoying. They are perfect examples of what I study to be jack of all trades and master of none. It especially annoys me when they talk somewhat a topic in which I study or have done a lot of research on and they end up telling a lot of false facts which I know to not be true. . One is in the meat of a story when person butts in and tries to show that he is the only clever person in the room. Such a person is hateful, 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 net working events, I have realized that these people are despicable. When a person is in the mid dle of saying something, I find it really rude to cut in and interrupt them.However, this seems to ceaselessly happen at networking events where all the students are seek to gain favoritism from the employer by interrupting and attempting to show that he is the cleverest person in the room. c. Ladies-in- time lag who want to know everything that is going on. Once again, this example really pushes my buttons. I find this to be especially true in high schooltime settings where everyone wants to know everything. It seems that every person, especially girls in high school take away to know the daily gossip and find it a personal aim to spread that gossip to as many people as they peradventure can.I really do not like these types of people, especially when it is none of their subscriber line or when you do not even know them. d. A fledgling pushes ahead of the other members in a congregation with a acute look, this person starts laying down the law and forcing advice upon every thing 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 take a management graphic symbol 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 head of working in a group. From 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 probably 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 elegant or country behavior in phallic courtiers.Therefore, I believe that a man who acts as a human will receive praise from her. There is definitely a influenc e in Shonagons evaluation of people. Firstly, it is evident that she does not really like old people. This is evident in her 4th example of how she talks virtually an elderly person warms the palms of his hands over a brazier and stretches out the wrinkles. No Young man would dream of behaving in such a fashion old people can really be preferably shameless. This shows that she is quite straightforward and almost arrogant in indite about her view of elders.In addition, there is a gender bias as she seems to evaluate her masculine 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 leavi ng, he bangs into something with his hat.Most hateful To me, it seems that the virile courtier was just clumsy and made a mistake of banging his hat on something but to Shonagon, it seems that this is the most inelegant behavior a antheral 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 in reality 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.