The Pillow Book
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The Pillow Book has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Rest Is History. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Dominic SandbrookBritish historian, author and co-host of The Rest Is History
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
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- The Rest Is History · 1 episode
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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.