expression:

• Look for a big tree when you want shelter; Serve the powerful for your own good

noun:

• blessings; benefits (of modern civilization, civilisation)

noun:

• semifinalists; final four (in a tournament)

noun:

• washed-up seaweed; stranded seaweed

noun:

• suitor - archaism

noun:

• four-eyed; pattern of four squares

noun:

• night cold; cold night ➜ 朝寒

expression / ichidan verb:

• to change the schedule; to change one's plans

noun:

• neo-Confucianism (based on the teachings of Wang Yangming and his followers) ➜ 朱子学

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to satisfy oneself; to feel satisfied; to be proud

noun:

• chiropterans (i.e. bats)

noun:

• little child

noun:

• idiomatic pronunciation or peculiar reading of a kanji or compound

noun:

• giant burrowing cockroach (Macropanesthia rhinoceros)

noun:

• lava tube

noun:

• drunk driving

noun:

• crawling on all fours; getting on one's hands and knees; falling flat

noun:

• pupa; chrysalis

adjectival noun / noun:

• wickedness; sideways; unreasonable

noun:

• Western sword; sabre; saber ➜ 洋刀【ようとう】

noun / ~する noun:

• making a living; getting on in the world; subsistence

noun:

• sericulture industry

noun:

• sweeping sideways; mowing down

adverb / noun:

• day and night

noun:

• hades; realm of the dead; the next world ➜ 黄泉【よみ】