What Dominic Sandbrook has said about The Pillow Book
1 quote · 1 episode · Apr 5, 2026
Dominic Sandbrook, British historian, author and co-host of The Rest Is History, has been quoted on The Pillow Book once in 1 episode of The Rest Is History, most recently on April 5, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Sandbrook contrasts the ordered, elegant world of Heian court literature with the violence of contemporary Western Europe.
“It's Vikings. It's Æthelred the Unready. It's massacres. It's people, bishops being hit over the head with hammers. It's just completely different”
The Rest Is History: 658. Dawn of the Samurai: The Shadow of the Sword (Part 1) (Apr 5, 2026) · Listen from 58:12
Episodes
658. Dawn of the Samurai: The Shadow of the Sword (Part 1)The Rest Is History · Apr 5, 2026 · 1 h 3 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the origins of Japan's samurai, from the Tokugawa shogunate and the Bushido myth back to the 10th-century warlord Taira no Masakado.
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