A poetic journey back to the Japanese imperial court of the year 1000. New translation - for the first time fully in German! A bundle of fine paper served Sei Shonagon as a notebook a thousand years ago. She confided in it her thoughts, including intimate and delicate matters from the private chambers of the imperial palace. Whether she describes witty dialogues, an intimate tête-à-tête, or paints the Festival of Irises - her impressions appear like eternal images brushed with ink. Never has one heard a woman speak so inspiredly about herself and her world! Sei Shonagon's "Telegrams" from a legendary high culture provide deep insights into the Japan of the Heian period as well as into the inner life of the author herself. Her radically subjective confessional book, now fully translated into German and stripped of all false sweetness, enchants.