noun:

• sense of decorum; attention to the common civilities of life - four character idiom

noun:

• pounding the edges of planks of wood to join them

noun:

• going (e.g. of a flight of stairs); length

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• everyday occurrence; commonplace of life; nothing out of the ordinary - four character idiom

noun:

• (at the) peak of mischievousness; little demon (of children)

noun:

• Assumption (of the body and soul of Mary into heaven) ➜ 聖母マリア

noun:

• Assumption (of the body and soul of Mary into heaven) ➜ 聖母被昇天

noun:

• gastrotrichs (members of a phylum of tiny bristled wormlike animals)

noun:

• Ecclesiastes (book of the Bible); words of Qohelet [literal]

noun:

• Gospel of Thomas (apocryphal) (book of the Bible)

noun:

• First Epistle of Peter (book of the Bible)

noun:

• Second Epistle of Peter (book of the Bible)

noun:

• First Epistle of John (book of the Bible)

noun:

• Second Epistle of John (book of the Bible)

noun:

• Third Epistle of John (book of the Bible)

expression / noun:

• summer campaign of the siege of Osaka (1615 CE) ➜ 大坂冬の陣

expression / noun:

• winter campaign of the siege of Osaka (1614 CE) ➜ 大坂夏の陣

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• (of soil, etc.) soft, dry and crumbly - archaism - onomatopoeia
• sound of quiet walking - onomatopoeia

noun:

• oedogonium (any of a genus of filamentous green algae)

noun:

• beefeater (brand of gin, warden in the Tower of London)

noun:

• general election (of all members of a local government body) ➜ 地方公共団体

noun:

• pictures of ancient wise men (name of a book)

noun:

• Art of the Brush (esp. school of Japanese Zen calligraphy)

noun:

• simultaneous contemplation of the threefold truth (form of Tendai meditation) - Buddhism term ➜ 三諦

noun:

• imposition (i.e. of rules, of a decision); compulsion