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Sei Shonagon (966-1017) was a famous Japanese writer. Her Headboard Notes is one of the best works of the Heian period (794-1185), written in the genre of zuihitsu, a philosophical lyrical essay, a confession. The peculiarity of this original essayistic genre of medieval Japanese literature was the unlimited freedom of the author's writing, without any pre-drawn up plan - a kind of "following the brush", when the author wrote down in separate sections (dan), not connected by a single style, theme and plot, personal experiences, feelings, emotions, various reflections, his own philosophical reflections, interesting observations, etc. Translated into many languages, this brilliant work of the "golden age" of Japanese classical literature has been admired by many generations of readers around the world, including Ukrainians, for over a thousand years.