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

noun:

• date of issuance (e.g. of a license or passport)

noun:

• wild ginger trefoil coat of arms of the Tokugawa clan

noun:

• Parupeneus; genus of goatfishes of the family Mullidae

noun:

• xenoturbellan (either of two species of worm-like basal deuterostomes)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• wide and deep (of a body of water); voluminous

noun:

• area of southwestern Japan north of the Median Tectonic Line ➜ 西南日本

noun:

• area of southwestern Japan south of the Median Tectonic Line ➜ 西南日本

noun:

• amount of work; extent of labor (involved in ..., accomplished, etc.)

noun:

• eldest grandson of an Emperor in the line of descent

noun:

• vents at the hips of a pair of hakama

noun:

• extinction of contamination (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers) - Buddhism term ➜ 六神通

noun:

• gist of what someone else said
• purpose of a visit ➜ 来意