Preceded by the Nara period, Heian Japan was the peak of Japanese aristocratic culture. This period had a well-defined system of hierarchy and order that contributed a lot to the society of the time. Works of poetry and fiction were valued in society. Despite the integration of Chinese influences into Japanese culture, the distinct Japanese nativity still manages to flourish in certain works of art. Analyzing gender dualism, it was widely believed that women wrote in the traditional Japanese style, called kana, and men wrote in the "borrowed" Chinese language. This means that women used the “everyday” language of the Japanese people; while men exercised the most exclusive and “official” language of the Chinese. This is the most important and understandable reason why literature written by women of the period has outlived its lifespan for centuries and provides us with the most preeminent portal to the Heian period of Japanese culture, to visualize gender and status roles. This period of history. produced an abundance of “women’s vernacular” literature. This gives us a glimpse into the life of a court lady; a woman closest to the pinnacle of a woman's socially stratified existence. Sei Shōnagon is famous for his work The Pillow Book. Sei Shōnagon herself said it in “Women and High Offices,” that women had to be born, more or less, into high roles; while men had the ability to move up the totem pole through “promotions”. This, in itself, describes the hierarchical system that generally favored social mobility in the hands of men. Which explains why men had the luxury of learning to read and write Chinese. Chinese was the language of legal and religious documents, and middle of paper......torians a glimpse into the past. Unlike the archaic Chinese script used by men, women of this era used kana to elaborate on daily events, in important details. We are fortunate to have an abundance of successful and educated female authors so close to the courts to provide such unique insight. But let's make no mistake. The breadth of the aristocratic perspective cannot fill the missing void that we do not have the capacity to fill. Much of the daily life of ordinary women in Heian Japan took place without papers. However, this does not take away from the beauty of the literature we have from this period. Subjective rather than objective knowledge can be extracted from these works of poetry and fiction. The focus on the interior is so unforgiving that it manages to serve as a window into Japan's court life..