This author wrote that “An ox cart that’s overturned” is disconcerting because “You’ve assumed that something of such enormous bulk must of course be thoroughly stable.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who wrote a diary translated by Meredith McKinney. A work by this Heian period author includes lists of “Deeply Irritating Things” and “Things That Make One’s Heart Beat Faster.”
ANSWER: Sei Shōnagon [or Sei Shōnagon]
[10e] This author criticized the author of The Pillow Book, Sei Shōnagon, for her arrogance. This literary rival of Sei Shōnagon wrote The Tale of Genji.
ANSWER: Lady Murasaki [or Murasaki Shikibu]
[10h] In The Pillow Book, a character quotes a poem about a hut thatched with this substance. The title of Natsume Soseki’s novel The Three-Cornered World literally translates to “Pillow of [this substance].”
ANSWER: grass [accept Kusamakura; accept Pillow of Grass or Grass Pillow or “Alone at Night in a Grass-thatched Hut beneath Lu Shan Mountain.”]
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