the ledger of connections
The Connections of Sei Shonagon
Japanese author and court lady Every person recorded alongside Sei Shonagon in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Sei Shonagon in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Kiyohara no Motosuke
- Spouses
- Tachibana no Norimitsu, Fujiwara no Muneyo
- Children
- Tachibana no Norinaga, Jōtōmoninkomanomyōbu
- Siblings
- Kaishū, Kiyohara no Munenobu
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 966 CE to 1025.
Medieval era
Ibn al-Haytham
965 CE – 1038
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
Medieval era
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
980 CE – June 18, 1037
Persian polymath whose Canon of Medicine taught Europe for 600 years
Medieval era
Al-Biruni
September 4, 973 CE – December 9, 1048
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
Medieval era
Murasaki Shikibu
978 CE – 1014
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)
Medieval era
Ferdowsi
940 CE – 1020
Persian poet, author of Shahnameh (940–1020)
Medieval era
Leif Erikson
972 CE – 1020
Norse explorer (c. 970 – c. 1020)
Medieval era
Ali Hujwiri
1009 – September 25, 1072
Sufi mystic
Medieval era
Rabia Balkhi
b. c. 1000
Persian poet, first woman poet of Islamic period
Medieval era
Ly Thai To
March 8, 974 CE – 1028
Vietnamese emperor
Medieval era
Anawrahta
May 11, 1014 – April 11, 1077
Founder of the Pagan Empire
Medieval era
Æthelred the Unready
967 CE – April 23, 1016
King of England
Medieval era
Edmund Ironside
993 CE – November 30, 1016
King of the English, Wessex dynasty