everyone, one and all

What you like to do, you will do well. To improve your skills in something, you must enjoy doing it.

mother bear

patching clothing / throwing together words or ideas from others

patch / patch together (an essay etc.)

ohagi

hagi no tsuki, a Sendai specialty

staggered shelves (two shelves at different heights, each one extending from one wall while not touching the other wall, but mutually joined in the middle with a vertical segment)

skinning an animal (especially a horse) while it is still alive

Japanese clover