A grand tenth century love affair told by a beautiful lady-in-waiting in an ancient Japanese 'Pillow Book', as stylistically perfect and lovely as light glittering among reeds on the Inland Sea at evening.
... Or is it a brilliant fake by the lovesick archeologist who pens the Introduction.... The presentation of the setting — an astonishingly recreated tenth century Japan — is as precise and evocative as the finest Japanese brush painting.

The son of United Church missionaries, Barrie Sherwood was born in Hong Kong on November 10th, 1971. When he was eight his family moved to the BC interior. He later read English at Simon Fraser and spent a year studying playwriting at UBC. He now lives in Vancouver with his wife and daughter. His work has been published in Matrix, Headlight, and Vanilla Crow.

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"Lady Kasa's infatuation with a palace guard unfolds in a series of vividly imagined, obliquely sexual scenes and conversations...."
— The Globe and Mail, March, 2001
"...a delightful introduction to the attitudes and amusements of Japan's ancient courtly society. History has rarely been easier to read."
— Patricia Morley, Canadian Book Review Annual, 2000