"In autumn, the evening - the blazing sun has sunk very close to the mountain rim, and now even the crows, in threes and fours or twos and threes, hurrying to their roost, are a moving sight."
From Sei Shonagon's "The Pillow Book". Chapter I. In spring, the dawn...Translation by Meredith McKinney, Penguin Classics, 2006
(Mostly Classical) Japanese Literature: poetry and prose; excerpts, translations, and other drafts of a scholar