Question
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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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 78% | 56% | 11% |