A flight of crows circle about with loud caws.

An admirer has come on a clandestine visit, but a dog catches sight of him and starts barking...

A gentleman has visited one secretly. Though he is wearing a tall, lacquered hat, he nevertheless wants no one to see him. He is so flurried, in fact, that upon leaving he bangs into something with his hat...

One has been foolish enough to invite a man to spend the night in an unsuitable place - and then he starts snoring.

A certain gentleman whom one does not want to see visits one at home or in the palace, and one pretends to be asleep. But a maid comes to tell one and shakes one awake, with a look on her face that says, "What a sleepyhead!”...

A man with whom one is having an affair keeps singing the praises of some woman he used to know...

A lover who is leaving at dawn announces that he has to find his fan and his paper. "I know I put them somewhere last night" he says...

Sei Shonogon: Hateful Things