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Fujiwara Tadanobu
Tsunefusa is a senior courtier who serves as a provincial governor for a time. He and Sei are friends, and he sometimes visits her at home. According to Sei’s account, Tsunefusa is responsible for the circulation of The Pillow Book—the volume was accidentally left out during one of his visits, and he carried it off with him, despite Sei’s protests.
Tsunefusa Quotes in The Pillow Book
The The Pillow Book quotes below are all either spoken by Tsunefusa or refer to Tsunefusa. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Sections S1–S29
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I set to work with this boundless pile of paper to fill it to the last sheet with all manner of odd things, so no doubt there’s much in these pages that makes no sense.
Overall, I have chosen to write about the things that delight, or that people find impressive, including poems as well as things such as trees, plants, birds, insects and so forth, and for this reason people may criticize it for not living up to expectations and only going to prove the limits of my own sensibility. But after all, I merely wrote for my personal amusement things that I myself have thought and felt, and I never intended that it should be placed alongside other books and judged on a par with them. […] Anyway, it does upset me that people have seen these pages.
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Tsunefusa Quotes in The Pillow Book
The The Pillow Book quotes below are all either spoken by Tsunefusa or refer to Tsunefusa. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Sections S1–S29
Quotes
I set to work with this boundless pile of paper to fill it to the last sheet with all manner of odd things, so no doubt there’s much in these pages that makes no sense.
Overall, I have chosen to write about the things that delight, or that people find impressive, including poems as well as things such as trees, plants, birds, insects and so forth, and for this reason people may criticize it for not living up to expectations and only going to prove the limits of my own sensibility. But after all, I merely wrote for my personal amusement things that I myself have thought and felt, and I never intended that it should be placed alongside other books and judged on a par with them. […] Anyway, it does upset me that people have seen these pages.
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